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I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness. (Marcus Brigstocke)
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Is Ron Paul a Bible-believing Christian that believes in the book of Genesis all the way to Revelation? I seriously doubt that, but compare him to these other clowns. Compare him to these other buffoons. Compare him to these other lying, blaspheming dogs. Am I a bad person for saying things like that? It's just true. View quote
Texe Marrs
I'd compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don't want to bad mouth astrologers. View quote
Eugene Fama
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. View quote
William Osler
To speak impartially, both sayings are very true; That Man to Man is a kind of God; and that Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe. The first is true, if we compare Citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare Cities. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart. View quote
Michael Phelps
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? View quote
Louis Aragon
I will not reason and compare my business is to create. (William Blake)
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power But if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. View quote
Salman Rushdie
How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain But why compare I'm wife stop there. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students. View quote
Alfie Kohn
DYING AND DEATH are the most universal and personally relevant experiences for every single individual. In the course of life, we all lose relatives, friends, teachers, and acquaintances and eventually face our own biological demise. Yet it is quite extraordinary that until the late 1960es, the Western industrial civilization showed an almost complete lack of interest in the subject of death and dying. This attitude has been displayed not only by the general public, but also by scientists and professionals for whom this subject should be of great interest - medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologicians. The only plausible explanation for this situation is massive denial of death and psychological repression of everything related to it. This disinterest is even more striking when we compare it to the attitude toward mortality in preindustrial societies... View quote
Stanislav Grof
Shadow is an amazing subject. Shadow is an absence. As an absence of energy you can compare it to silence or maybe cold air....We talk about photography being simple and architecture being complex and how do you convey something that is more deep, that allows you to dream or think This is weird so you start to dream and think and you maybe go out purely from the picture but into yourself. The light and the shadow are tools to allow you to do that. View quote
Hélène Binet
Now we all know that new recordings carry Danger signs all over them. Danger: fantastic sound can subvert your judgement. Danger: artist's names and reputations can affect the way we listen. Danger: a new recording has not had time to win you over-it may be unfair to compare it to one you have known for 20 years. [...] Danger: things that irritate now may endear themselves to us in time. Danger: there was only one Stokowski. View quote
Donald Vroon
It is much easier to prejudge than to judge. It saves a lot of work to write about all the intellectual baggage one brings to the work. It is harder, even somewhat daunting, to start from scratch with what one is actually hearing. Actually it is not easy at all to make judgements in this field without falling back on preconceived categories. Comparisons often come to the rescue. Stokowski's Scheherazade is without question an extremely effective, almost magical, performance. If I'm reviewing that work I must know outstanding performances like Stokowski's. And I must know why it's outstanding-I must know it by listening to it, not merely by reputation. I must compare the newcomer to it to see if he manages to make as much of the music. (Donald Vroon)
But in writing this book I found myself sadly hampered by the impossibility of drawing such diagrams as were necessary for my purpose... my life was under a cloud. All pleasures palled upon me; all sights tantalized and tempted me to outspoken treason, because I could not but compare what I saw in Two Dimensions with what it really was if seen in Three, and could hardly refrain from making my comparisons aloud. View quote
Edwin Abbott Abbott
I fancy I hear them talking there In an open boat, and the speech is fair. And the boy is learning the ways of men From the finest man in his youthful ken. Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare With the gentle father who's with him there. And the greatest mind of the human race Not for one minute could take his place. View quote
Edgar Guest
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.' View quote
Louis Sachar
I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore. View quote
Guy Lafleur