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• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Differences
  • Impression
  • Angle

• Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Melancholy
  • Trance

• Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Growth

• One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Compare
  • Awe
  • Supremes

• The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Person
  • Ourselves
  • Compare

• The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Battle

• As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Women
  • School
  • Girl

• The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Power
  • Kind

• Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • Compare
  • Agony

• People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

  

  Gazzy Garcia
  • Care
  • Compare
  • Rapper

• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Hours

• I’m not tryna be dark but I just got to the part where you stare at the stars and compare what you are to everything all around, wonder what it’d be like if it all came crashing down.

  

  Jesse Rutherford
  • Stars
  • Compare
  • Crashing

• If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

  

  Jules Shear
  • People
  • Like
  • Compare

• Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Time
  • Love
  • Teach

• As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.

  

  George Arthur Crump
  • Term
  • Effectiveness
  • Requirements

• Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

  

  Will Wright
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Games

• I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Different
  • Drama

• In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Ways
  • Compare
  • The Pretenders

• Be kind to everyone you meet - and most importantly, never compare your career to another model's.

  

  Vittoria Ceretti
  • Career
  • Model
  • Compare

• One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

  

  Winfried Vahland
  • Brand
  • Volkswagen
  • Skoda

• Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Poet

• Rather than compare yourself to others, compare your present progress with your potential.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Progress
  • Potential
  • Compare

• We believe that such a significant increase in longevity is due to the protective effect against cancer produced by caloric restriction - incidences fall by 40 percent if we compare them with the mice that produce more telomerase and have a normal diet - and, added to the presence of longer telomeres, this makes the mice live longer and better.

  

  María Blasco Marhuenda
  • Believe
  • Percent
  • Significant

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