“I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take a sample of classic, early infantile autism persons and compare them with what I call "classic late onset autism", individuals. I think we will find that the cause of those youngsters with autism who have autism from birth is probably different than those who have late onset autism.” IfsThinkingPersonsDifferentWantedIndividualCausesBirthLateResearchCompareClassicIf I CouldAutismYoungstersSampleInfantile Author:Darold Treffert
“There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image, and no reason at all to accuse such creatures of getting the world wrong - a point that both Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche make when comparing human and animal perspectives.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferentReasonPurposeAnimalPerspectiveCreaturesConcernCompareNo ReasonHumans And Animals Author:David E. Cooper
“I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.” HeartBookHardAgePoliticalFourBabyIncludingBarsCompareExamBar Exam Author:Angela Alioto
“There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.” FeelsI CanBrotherCompareMy BrotherFirefighter Author:Kate Thornton
“When I hear people comparing Mike's [Jordan] work to Denzel [Washington] I think it's amazing.. Because Denzel is such an amazing, textured actor. And I think that that comes with Mike too. I'm not thinking about how they look, though; I'm thinking about what they're able to accomplish.” PeopleThinkingLooksAbleActorsAccomplishCompareMikeJordanDenzel Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.” ChildrenPersonsEnvironmentCompareCivilizedSavagesHeredityHeredity And Environment Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the nature of the book he has to write, just at the moment when his advancing years and declining health have made him doubt that he's going to live long enough to write it. So he has to write against death like Scheherazade.” WritingYearsLongMadeBookEnoughMomentsLastsLostDoubtUnderstoodCompareVolumeAdvancingProustLost Time Author:Elif Batuman
“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.” CountryReasonShareMethodInternationalCompareSensitiveReasonableGoodsHouseholdCurrencyConsumptionCommodityConsumingCalculationsExpendituresPurchasingGoods And ServicesPurchasing PowerParity Author:Thomas Pogge
“Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.” WorldNeedsPlayPurposePoorRolesCarHugeExerciseCapableMethodDollarsMeetingsDetermineBreadCompareHouseholdConsumptionRiceBeansConvertingCalculatingPurchasingWorld BankPurchasing PowerParitySmall Roles Author:Thomas Pogge
“I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.” ThinkingThirdsCompareGermany Author:Tariq Ali
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.” ThinkingMayImportantCountryStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesDirectElectionIncludingCompareAlliesOther CountriesImperialismCubaStigmaPolitical SystemsCubanAmerican Imperialism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide.” IfsWantNeedsSpiritualWalksWalkingMountainGuidesCompareGuidanceClimbsClimbingMountain ClimbingEverestMount EverestSpiritual Guidance Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“I always remind Quebecers: hey, wait a minute - federalism works. If you look at the fiscal arrangements, the economic arrangements, the way the country works, if you compare it to other countries in the world, it's quite advantageous for Quebec.” IfsWorldWayLooksCountryWaitingEconomicMinutesHeyCompareOther CountriesArrangementsQuebecFederalism Author:Philippe Couillard
“One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.” PeopleImportantIdeasDifferentCountryEnoughProblemBigsAbleSupportDetailsCreditStatementsCardsCompareCredit CardBig Problems Author:George Osborne
“What I feel the most confident about as a teacher, whatever my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I got to be around those people, I feel like that I have something to offer because of that blessing. Being around them a little bit... I'm not them. I'm certainly not trying to compare myself to them. But in lieu of them being able to impart something, the fact that I had so many people like that that were kind to me and talked to me was invaluable.” PeopleFeelsTryingKindLittlesFactsAbleBitsTeacherBlessingOffersLittle BitWeaknessCompareImpartInvaluableStrength And Weakness Author:Jon Gordon
“There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to a digital-only release where you can control the exact time that it'll come out, you know what I mean? So whoever finds how to bridge that gap is gonna make a lot of money.” PeopleIfsKnowsMeanStillsValuesPayWillingReleaseBridgesCompareDigitalGapsLots Of MoneyCdsNostalgic Author:J. Cole
“I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books.” ThinkingGivingShouldMeanBookDifferentYoungArtistToo MuchInternetNotesLikesCompareNot SurePublishingYoung Artists Author:Liz Prince
“I don't think the music industry has done any damage to my faith - it's probably strengthened it because it's made me see how necessary and relevant it is. I think if you don't keep your guard up, obviously there's a lot of potential for being half-hearted throughout the whole process because you can compare yourself to other people instead of the ultimate standard.” PeopleIfsThinkingMadeDoneWholeProcessHalfIndustryStandardsUltimateCompareDamageRelevantHeartedMusic IndustryHalf HeartedGuards Up Author:LeCrae
“The important thing is to find what's unique about yourself, find what's unique about someone else. And embrace everything in the moment, as opposed to constantly comparing yourself and your lover and your relationship to a static set of expectations.” ImportantMomentsLoversUniqueExpectationsImportant ThingsEmbraceCompareAbout YourselfOur RelationshipStaticComparing Yourself Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.” PeopleWritingHardFeltProcessPersonalityCompareFascinated Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.” WholeProcessEnjoyPiecesColorModelsTasksFinishedShootingCompareLatterPlasticFilmmakingEditingEnjoyableMold Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."” ThinkingLittlesStoriesLiteratureBitsFictionExampleHumorousHonestlyCompareGenreOnlineShort StoryConsideringLit Author:Lee Klein
“I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or Beatles. I went and saw the reunion and watching them play "Stairway to Heaven," it was very breathtaking for one reason mostly. I can imagine these two guys looking at each other, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Not to compare us to Led Zeppelin, but I did miss the fact that I could look over at the guy, Twiggy Ramirez, that wrote "The Beautiful People" and "Dope Show." Emotionally, it's taken a long time to repair that.” PeopleLooksLongI CanTwoReasonPlayFactsShowsBeautifulGuyHeavenTakenSawsImagineDoorsFansMissingHugePagesLong TimePlantCompareJimmyDopeReunionBeautiful PeopleZeppelinsBreathtakingTwo GuysStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Marilyn Manson
“It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by a modern American president. Compare that to Libya. For a month he said we weren't going to do anything, then suddenly changed his mind and did it on the fly. My view is that it's not how long or quick you take to make a decision, it's whether you make the right one.” MindLongWarPresidentDecisionInterestingModernPolicyChangedBarackCompareAfghanistanForeign PolicyThoroughAmerican President Author:Michael Hastings
“I can't compare my life growing up in Leimert Park to someone in Imperial Village Projects; we don't have the same options and I understand that. You do what you do based on survival and instincts. If I know something, I try to share it and give that opportunity and enlightenment to whomever I'm around, some people might not want to hear it but once you know something, you have the option to do better.” PeopleGivingTryingOpportunityGrowing UpShareSurvivalEnlightenmentInstinctCompare Author:Dom Kennedy
“People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to be you and to try to engage with your child. If you're constantly working, so you don't have that much time to spend with them, but you have 20 minutes at the end of the day to read them their favourite book, children will remember that.” PeopleTryingChildrenImportantBookRememberOur ChildrenCompareYour ChildrenFavourite Author:Liv Tyler
“No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets parts of his consciousness in that most writers aren't able to do, myself included. I don't feel like I have that access to the surreal and the somehow beautifully meaningful non-sequitur - that fits perfectly. I can never figure that out, how he does that.” WritingDifficultConsciousnessFitMeaningfulCompareAbstractSurreal Author:John K. Samson
“Compare yourself not to others, but only to the vision you hold within your heart. Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself and watch you get beyond yourself. The very thing that someone told you that you would never be able to do may just be the very thing you are destined to do.” HeartVisionCompare Author:John Frederick Demartini
“I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.” PeopleWonderfulWeekTeachingCompareBeing In LoveDisappointingExhilarating Author:Cynthia Voigt
“You can't really explain competing in Olympic event to someone. You can say, "Oh, that was really tough." And that literally means nothing to someone. If you can give some sort of comparison, because that's really all track and field is about any way....Usain Bolt runs a time and you get to see what everybody else's time is. It would just be interesting to compare Olympians to somebody who doesn't train their whole life.” GivingMeanRunningInterestingToughTrainTrackWhole LifeCompareComparisonCompetingOlympian Author:Ashton Eaton
“Saudi Arabia stammering worldwide terrorism! Yeah, but Donald Trump went there and tackled it. You compare this to Barack Obama's mindless twaddling, whatever it was, the Cairo speech that no can still tell you what he said. The contrast is striking to me.” TerrorismBarackCompareContrast Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Compare and contrast: Donald Trump is going out thanking the voters who supported him. You look at his cabinet picks. They are not donors. These three military guys are not being chosen because they're being paid back for donating to Trump. He's picking them because they're the best. And what's Hillary Clinton doing? She is thanking the money people. She's not thanking supporters. She's not thanking people who believed in her for her ideas and substance and her personally.” PeopleGuyMilitaryClintonChosenCompareContrastSupporter Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't make comparisons between any movies. I compare characters. All my actions, performances, all my films, they are driven by the characteristic. If I'm playing a cop, then I give him a particular style - I may not know that style, but as an actor I have to be responsible to do your homework and do your research and training and stuff like that.” GivingCharacterActionFilmStyleTrainingResponsibleDrivenCompareComparisonCopHomeworkBeing Responsible Author:Donnie Yen
“Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents, responsible for destroying this country, and finally aiming at building a just, kind and beautiful nation called 'Indonesia'. This is much better and glorious than sitting in Starbucks, staring like idiots at uniformed smart phones, and basically killing ones life... and the lives of others... for nothing.” WorldWritingKindArtCountryBeautifulParentBuildingSmartResponsibleKillingIdiotCompareStaringRevolutionaryGloriousGrandparentLives Of OthersOutraged Author:Andre Vltchek
“Every third our fourth generation that comes along refuses to accept the way their parents and grandparents are living. They just don't want any part of it, and Millennials are doing that in a way. The Millennials, you talk to a lot of their parents, and they don't recognize 'em when they compare them to themselves.” ParentAcceptingCompareGrandparent Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences.” HelpingChallengesHonestStrategyResponseCompareLife ExperienceCopingSpeaking Out Author:Tara Moss
“Healthy aggression is good, but I think social media can perpetuate that in the worst way. You have to be careful about comparing yourself to others. You can never be somebody else. You will only be yourself, and that's what's great.” ThinkingWorstHealthyCarefulSocial MediaCompareBeing YourselfBe CarefulAggression Author:Rose Byrne
“Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.” PeopleArtistFemaleCompareRapper Author:Uffie
“The best advice came from my manager, Anne, who told me to never compare myself to other people and to be true to myself. There's so many talented people out there in the world of music it can be intimidating, and she taught me to be inspired by talent and not scared of it.” PeopleWorldAdviceTalentInspiredScaredBeing TrueCompareIntimidatingBest Advice Author:Roxanne Emery
“The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war. Already we have a very wasteful healthcare system, the most wasteful healthcare system in the world. I mean, we spend the most money and still have 40 million people without insurance. Compare us to Cuba. Cuba is our enemy, run by a dictator, Fidel Castro. But people in Cuba get health care at least equal to that of the United States - with very scarce resources. So I think this issue is the most important domestic issue.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingMeanLongImportantWarProblemCareRunningEnemyEqualHealth CareCompareHealthcareDictatorCastro Author:Howard Zinn
“I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.” MeanImportantTermTraditionJazzCompare20th Century Author:Terry Teachout
“The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Armstrong's solos tended to stick pretty close to the melody. But for some reason, it's like he let go of the tether and suddenly he's playing this beautiful high, almost abstract line that's floating above the beat. I compare it to the way that a 19th century operatic tenor might have sang an Aria because he's just completely let loose of the background and he's making this magic sort of flying above the staff.” ReasonBeautifulSongMagicLetting GoFlyingCompareAbstractMelody19th Century Author:Terry Teachout
“"Be fearless," is one thing. I'm still learning what that means, to be fearless. It doesn't just mean to be fearless in your work, but also in life. Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am. Because I'm driven, I have a hard time being patient. The universe is like, "You're not ready! Sit back and wait." Everything will line up just how it's supposed to.” MeanUniverseWaitingLike YouToughPatientDrivenFearlessCompareHard TimesBe PatientNot Ready Author:Danielle Brooks
“If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.” KidsActionSchoolBlackSupportTakenCompareConsiderationNeighborhoodAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:William Julius Wilson
“No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.” BelieveRememberLike YouCompare Author:Mary J. Blige
“When you're getting ready, you finally reach a point where your clothes are right and your hair and makeup are right, and you're not comparing yourself to anyone. It's a really great moment. Then you get to the party and it's like, "Oh my god, I'm wearing the wrong thing! I'm garish!" or "I'm underdressed!"” MomentsPartyCompareMakeupReally GreatGreat Moments Author:Laurie Simmons
“You can't compare us, but I do think that Calvin Klein influenced his way of working. Calvin created this whole aesthetic with imagery - the whole sex thing. I can see that Calvin influence on his work. What Calvin has created is untouchable. My legacy, whatever it is I'm doing here, is miniscule compared to what he has done. It's just like an update deal.” ThinkingDoneInfluenceLegacyCompareAestheticImageryUntouchables Author:Francisco Costa
“I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed society. In that sense, we are outliers. Are we suckers? Yes, but it's not just that. That puts too fine a point on what I am saying. We're not idiots and victims. It's about us as a people, compared with, say, Canadians, believing whatever we believe because, well, we're Americans, we feel this way without regard for what scholars and scientists say.” PeopleBelieveTermScientistVictimEducationalIdiotCompareScholarSucker Author:Kurt Andersen
“The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no tattoos or piercings, which is interesting to me. Why does everyone who lives in one place dress alike, look alike, eat the same thing, and decorate the same way?” ParentInterestingExtraordinaryCompareTattooConservatism Author:Tina Barney
“Obviously it's difficult not to compare one record success-wise, or sales-wise, or whatever, but I think you're always going to have moments - whatever record you've got - of insecurity.” ThinkingMomentsDifficultCompareInsecurity Author:Elly Jackson