Comparing Quotes
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I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
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Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
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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.
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Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
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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.
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
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People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.
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God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.
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Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.
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There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
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What we should be comparing is not the existing market configuration with an ideal based on a simple model but the market process of error correction with the political process of error correction.
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When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey.
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Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.
