So right off, I’m going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don’t do that.
When it comes to work, I’m not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that I couldn’t be competitive because I had a sister who meant more to me. And I knew she was going to be brilliant, so I had to become very aware of not comparing.
No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what’s most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.
Stop comparing yourselves with others and let’s talk about more important things that are happening worldwide. Come out, speak for yourself, because you are the leader of your life. You are the voice of your own.
They’ve been talking about Pi, which I haven’t seen, they’ve been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn’t see that either.
America is immature as a nation, and part of the reason why ‘Hung’ is a hit show is because it deals with that immature side of the male brain where we are kind of comparing ourselves to the rest of the world.
Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching Christmas-red tracksuit with matching walkie-talkies as we troll Ralphs, excitedly comparing triple coupons.
In the end, censoring a comedian’s jokes is on par with censoring ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ Now, I’m not comparing myself to Mark Twain – he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you’re forcing your beliefs on him.
It’s bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another ‘Carrie’ to compare it to, it’s rough.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
I’m no slouch, but when comparing LeBron’s game, I’m usually left out.
To write long pieces – or not even long pieces – to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that – they’re different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x’s and o’s. Inside baseball, it’s all, ‘Who’s gonna win?’ or you’re comparing things – it’s not as thoughtful as it used to be.
Like anyone else, I can fall into these massive Instagram holes and start comparing myself to other people.
If you’ve read my New York Times bestseller ‘Stonewalled’, you know that I’m a fan of an intellectual exercise I call the Substitution Game. It involves comparing how the press treats similar events or people depending on how the reporter or news organization feels about the issue or the newsmaker.
The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards. The league is about numbers, and it’s crazy. You make those comparisons, and I’m losing every battle.
I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can’t compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven’t had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I’m not prepared to do it.
Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit – unless George Burns is there – and then I have a ball.
I take it a little bit hard on myself because I’m comparing myself a lot, and that’s the kind of person I am because I’m so competitive, but it’s also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
It’s important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left – comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant – preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
I’ve fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I’m just enjoying my time in boxing.
It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.
Nobody can take too many big hits, not even comparing someone 5-foot-8 ’cause some of the 6-foot-3 guys still get knocked out, too.
That’s really truly what my message is – finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others – because there’s no such thing as perfection, because perfection doesn’t exist.
Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one’s body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
When people told me that ‘Polladhavan’ was a remake of ‘Bicycle Thieves,’ I wanted to laugh because comparing ‘Polladhavan’ to ‘Bicycle Thieves’ is a disgrace to the latter.
I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.
In one era, it’s hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras… that’s next to impossible.
I like acting and being a musician. It’s like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I’ve always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.
Comparing between siblings is something I don’t like and don’t do at all. I don’t believe in comparisons. We all have our own journeys and we enjoy each other’s success as much as ours.
Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.
Getting healthy means listening to my body – and no longer comparing myself with other people at the gym. Getting healthy means being satisfied with small, sustainable, incremental changes to my diet and lifestyle.
I really don’t look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
One thing I have found over years is that if you change direction, the initial reaction tends to be very polarized, but as the music gradually filters through and fans start engaging with it on its own terms rather than comparing it to what went before, the appreciation and acceptance of it increases.
Comparing oneself with one’s fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don’t apply to awesome people like us.
I don’t think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.
I don’t like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can’t objectively look at a piece when I’m so subjectively involved it.
I struggle with the idea of comparing people’s work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
It’s really hard to have your voice heard in a man’s world. People are always comparing women and bringing them down – that, I’m completely against. We have an obligation as women to not pit ourselves against each other, because men are going to do it for us.
Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
I don’t believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don’t know who are making sacrifices we don’t see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
