Top 115 Comparing Quotes

Even if one is interested only in one’s own society, which is one’s prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

I’ve always thought I crossed this really weird gap between the pop world and some slightly more left-field singer-songwriter music, but everyone’s always comparing me with Ed Sheeran. It’s frustrating.

Sometimes comparing can be a good thing: it can inspire us to work harder and reach farther. But for the most part, excessive measuring yourself up against others – especially when it becomes a way to put yourself down – is a colossal waste of time. It’s a dead end. It won’t make you do anything except feel horrible.

It is an honour that people are comparing me to Iniesta because of everything that he has achieved. But, and I have said this before, I do not like these kinds of comparisons. Andres is Andres, and I am Isco. I am a different person and player.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

I don’t think it’s fair comparing Barcelona’s style with that of Roma.

I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others.

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the ‘Shanghai Noon,’ that they’re comparing me to that!

Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That’s a great career band. It’s not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they’re different.

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

A lot challenges me! Not psyching myself out, not doubting myself, not comparing myself to others… all of that challenges me. But inevitably, challenges are put into our lives so that we may grow and become the best version of who we are meant to be.

More than comparing with somebody else, I’d prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

You’re only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it’s Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I’m not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits.

Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

‘Warm Bodies’ is a love story: a zombie-human being love story. And people are comparing it to ‘Twilight,’ but I think it’s three times better. It has a comedic twist to it as well.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Cris is fighter that I look up to, my style if very similar to hers. I like to go there, walk straight forward and beat someone, so it was great to hear people comparing me to Cyborg.

Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form.

Doubles is really exciting. I don’t like even comparing it to singles. I get asked a lot of times which one I like better. I think they’re two completely different games.

Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn’t win but their careers are doing well.

I don’t like comparing people or teams.

I told my wife once, ‘I feel like I’m getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.’ Some people are like, ‘You’re comparing David Milch to Aristotle,’ and yeah, I am, but I’m not Plato.

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that’s to say, patently unfair.

I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.

I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.

I don’t want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

If people say to me, ‘So, what were you doing in Dubai in that song?’ or they spend ages comparing me to some other singer, I just shut down, I guess.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It’s a lot of pressure.

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic… I’m not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don’t think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.

I’ve been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

With me sharing everything that I’m doing on social media, people might think that I’m constantly comparing myself to other people, but I’m really trying not to do that.

Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy – just because I’m from a similar background and profession, it’s such an easy comparison to make. It’s also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else’s personality and identity, rather than your own.

I think the one thing about ‘Total Divas’ is that we all had to open up our lives. We all had to open up that book and show you every chapter we’ve been through. Then when you start comparing, you see we all have something in common. That’s what made us all close.

I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I’ve got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

Every set has their own personalities and their own quirks. It’s funny comparing starring in a show to going in and doing recurring work – there’s already a rhythm that’s been established, and people know each other so well. It’s like being a guest in someone else’s home.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it’s like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It’s not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

He should write his name as Jaan Rita Bhattacharya, not Jaan Kumar Sanu because, firstly, Ritaji has done a lot for him, and secondly, people will start comparing him with me, which is not good for him as a newcomer. I’d be the happiest father to see him successful.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

I’m not comparing it with cricketers who get huge money. But getting some financial benefits do motivate players, especially athletes. I appreciate this move by the state government. A state like Haryana has been producing more and more players because of such motivations.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don’t question the decision itself.