Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to…

— Mary Cassatt

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger…

— Cyd Charisse

To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,…

— Alexandra David-Neel

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

— Eustache Deschamps

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and…

— Ashley Olsen

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

— Anita Diament

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

— Beth Moore

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct…

— Leonard Read

Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that…

— Danielle Brooks

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did…

— David Levithan

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

— Steven Wright

Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that…

— Justin Menkes

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles…

— Noah Webster

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;…

— Carl von Clausewitz