Comparing Quotations | Page 2

If you're comparing us to the teams we're up against, man for man, we're certainly not on the same level, but as a team we've been preparing for a couple of years for this. It proved in our exhibition games that we can hold our own with a lot of elite teams.

If you're looking back at last year and comparing it to this year, it's too tough to compare, because it's a very different team, ... Our identity has been four preseason games and two regular season games, and we really haven't executed the way I think we're capable, and to the expectation of our coaches.

I hope when the committee takes a look at teams that it's not just comparing two Mountain West Conference teams. I hope we're being compared to anyone else in the country.

I'm not comparing him as a fighter to Marvin Hagler, because there was only one Marvin, but the situation is the same. But I promised Antonio I would do everything in my power to make 2006 his year. If he doesn't get those fights this year, it won't be for a lack of effort. It will be because guys aren't interested in picking up the pen and signing the paper.

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting, ... I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.

TCO for Application Servers: Comparing Linux with Windows and Solaris.

The biggest savings comes from comparing brands - not stores. In some cases, it's not worth your time and gas money, driving across town to save a few bucks.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

The nice thing about 'Honeymoon in Vegas' is we're not talking about some crazy smash hit where everyone is coming and comparing my performance to Nicholas Cage.

Consumers can avoid the 'feature fatigue' trap by first trying out a product, and comparing several, before buying. Chances are they will be more satisfied with a simpler product with less features.

It's pretty amazing when Chris starts talking to people who've been all over the world and they start comparing us to the Tour de France. If you've ever seen video of people lining the roads in the Tour de France, it's a pretty amazing testament.

I wanted to play quarterback because I wanted to be the guy who had the ball in his hands all the time. But growing up, I was well aware of all the great quarterbacks and the tradition of Western Pennsylvania, and it was important for me to try and become a part of that. ... By no means am I comparing myself to the Hall of Famers who won Super Bowls because I still have a long, long way to go.

The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices. This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice. When men hear a male voice they process it in the 'mind's eye.' This is the part of the brain where people compare their experiences to themselves, so the man is comparing his own voice to the new voice.

It's very flattering, ... To compare me to him is comparing me to the best right now.

I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

In my mind I am comparing the Olympics and this event. Doing the (triple) Axel was an important point in this program for me.

Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

By comparing the two pieces of information, the manufacturer says a woman can learn how many eggs she has left, and how many years she'll remain fertile.

They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them to a $27 billion deal in a different kind of competitive environment where a lot of things can go wrong, you have no room for error. ... You can't be a gunslinger.

It's important to remember we're comparing results of Aboriginal students without reference to the general population. Relative to other schools (and based on the report), Carson Graham is not successful in ensuring that its Aboriginal students do well. But I strongly believe the report card provides the greatest benefit to schools that are not successful.

It's hard to compare them, because you're comparing two different kinds of markets,

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

A good example would be comparing a car to a truck we sell with a diesel engine. You might go from a $20 oil change to a $100 oil change.

The greatest loss from bad debts occurs by waiting too long before starting the collections process. That is why so many companies are comparing collection agencies now so they are prepared to use them just as soon as problems hit in the weeks ahead.

A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.

The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.

The concept to everything above the line is comparing how we operate the school system one year to the next. Below the line is debt service, but the comparative costs are not included because the debt service fluctuates too much.

It's surreal because I was comparing it to the New Orleans I went to for conventions and meetings, ... It's a city desperate to heal.

It's an interesting group of kids. They've meshed together. I'm constantly comparing them to the last team that won this championship (2002). That team was a breeze. I had to do a little. This one, they put it out there. There's a lot more effort.

As was the case for most of the year, growth was well distributed among the major construction segments. Comparing December 2005 to December 2004, public construction grew 10%, private residential construction rose 9.0%, and private nonresidential was up 6.0%. For the year, those categories increased 8.0%, 11%, and 5.0%, respectively.

The numbers were better than we expected. We knew we were comparing against a strong August last year, up 11.2 percent, and we knew having one less Saturday in the month would have an effect.

They had nothing to do with each other. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

You have to make sure you are comparing apples to apples. A lot of times, people don't do that -- but the properties could be really different, the lift tickets might cover different areas, and the shuttle service might not be as good.

We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

It's a good test. We have a problem with how it's being used. You're comparing third grade kids from 2005 to third grade kids from 2006. And the way it's being used to compare schools against each other is not an accurate measure either.

It's apples and oranges comparing that building to this (YMCA) building.

There's a real thing when they're sitting at a family dinner and they start comparing who's best. They don't want to come home losing.

I am not going to get into comparing one team to the other. I said from Day 1 this team will form its own identity and it will be good within itself. I think the kids have stuck on the program.

For our relays, I was looking at the times they are swimming and comparing them to last year, and I think we can qualify all three relays.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.