To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.
Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
The Premier League is a physical league if you want to compare it to other leagues.
When you’re acting on camera, you don’t really think of your voice. You think of the whole instrument – your body, your look, and whatever you have to do. But when you’re doing the voiceover, you’re thinking only of your voice. You really can’t compare the two different mediums.
If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.
I try to stay away, but In-N-Out, you just can’t compare it. It’s the best. It’s the best. It’s healthy fast food; they do their own meat and their own salad.
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It’s not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn’t even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: ‘Thank you so much. You have changed my life.’
It’s understandably obvious, when I was making ‘Company,’ of the underworld genre, people would compare it to ‘Satya.’
Books and people are hard to compare.
Please don’t compare the nature and authenticity of ‘Queer Eye’ to ‘The Bachelor.’
Honestly, I personally would prefer to have my name not mentioned alongside codifiers, like ‘white rapper’ or things like that, because the codifiers I like are Texas rappers. If you were to compare me to Lil’ Keke or the people that really inspired me, like UGK… In my mind, that’s who I think I should be compared to.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.
When people compare me to him… it’s like ‘wow’ maybe they see me on his level but I don’t believe I am there yet. It is what it is, he’s a skilful player, I’m quite skilful myself so they are always going to compare me to him especially that he’s my uncle.
Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: ‘If I compare with that I have been very lucky. At least I had 10 years of a beautiful experience that changed my life for ever.’
Thirty is still the iconic number. It’s when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.
Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks… c’mon people, get with the program – the future is now!
I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.
I don’t think nobody should compare me to anyone, ’cause, at the end of the day, you’ve got a ‘Pac, you’ve got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne – there’s only one Jeezy, man. Ain’t nobody walked in these shoes but me.
It’s so hard to compare one organization to another, just because there’s a different way of doing things.
People ask ‘How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?’ Well, when you’re doing a commercial you don’t have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.
I don’t want to compare myself to anyone else, but there’s Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I’ll be able to compete with them.
I’m not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
Don’t compare me to Stormzy. Me and Stormzy are both legends in our own right.
I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.
‘Housewives’ are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but ‘Housewives’ are even cattier. But I do think that it’s a total different world, and it can’t compare.
I don’t compare ’em, I just catch ’em.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
I think it’s hard to compare ‘Twitter’ and ‘Instagram’. Twitter has a more mature business.
When you’ve played Buffy – who’s such a strong female role model – it’s really hard for another female character to compare to her.
When I’m writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I’ve really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn’t get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses.
The descents are quite fun – everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.
I don’t like to compare coaches.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience – by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.
I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, ‘Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!’ If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I’m sure you could compare to, it’s just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
I’ve seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.
Do not compare yourself to what others seem to be.
I don’t want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he’s like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.
We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world – there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that’s what confused me.
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
To compare writing an article for ‘Sports Illustrated’ to doing a piece for ‘Real Sports’, the article, it was all me. You know, I’m out there by myself with my pad and pencil. ‘Real Sports,’ I’ve got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It’s an individual game versus a team game.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
I wouldn’t be able to compare ‘X Factor’ and ‘Indian Idol’ as I wasn’t a judge on the former. But there will never be another show like ‘Indian Idol’ as Indians connect with the struggle, pain and victory of a regular person on a show that allows them to choose the winner.
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
There’s a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
I’m hesitant to compare myself to Roger Federer in any way, but he’s improved while he’s in his thirties. That makes you believe that even though you may have struggled for a few years, there’s still hope.
