#comparison

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#gossip #inspirational #integrity #inspirational

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#albums #asked #band #because #best

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness! ↗

— Kristin Davis

#comparison #describe #doing #goodness #i

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. ↗

— Sunil Gavaskar

#come #comparison #comparisons #conditions #different

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#actually #based #cannot #career #choices

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#comparison #lost #succeeding #trying #which

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. ↗

— Robert Blair

#blunt #comparison #guilt #how #those

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#cannot #comparisons #examine #existence #formed

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#average #brother #comparison #cumulative #decidedly