Quotes About Advantage

We must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.

Of all the preferences that evolution gave us, I suspect the desire to share the contents of our minds played the single most important role in elevating us to the top of the food chain.* We are the fiercest predator on the planet by virtue of the power of our minds, but even human minds aren't that special on their own.

It was our capacity to learn from the experiences of others that gave Homo sapiens an enormous local advantage, with new strategies and innovations built on a platform of prior discoveries. As a consequence, each generation had no need to reinvent the wheel, and a child could acquire an understanding of the world that a few generations back would have been available only to geniuses.

I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

The War went on far too long... It was too vast for its meaning, like a giant with the brain of a midge. Its epic proportions were grotesquely out of scale, seeing what it was fought to settle. It was far too indecisive. It settled nothing, as it meant nothing. Indeed, it was impossible to escape the feeling that it was not meant to settle anything - that could have any meaning, or be of any advantage, to the general run of men.

If ... it would be a gain to any man to hang himself, I certainly think that it would be of the very greatest advantage to a tyrant to do so; for he alone is profited neither by retaining his troubles nor by laying them aside.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

As the pace of change increases in every aspect of our lives, HR professionals have become change champions in many companies around the world, and this has generally been much to their employers' advantage.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.

Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

When you identify those six to eight messages that will make the most difference in getting an interview and in winning a job offer, you'll design your résumé (and your job transition campaign) around those messages to give yourself a significant advantage over your competition. The messages must collectively answer the questions, "Why should I hire you?" and "What makes you the best qualified candidate for the job?

Keep it focused on choices that solve a problem to your audience's (and your) advantage.

Sarek frowned. "Insubordination?" "Eccentricity," Spock replied. "Captain Kirk allows a great deal of leeway as long as his crewmembers do their jobs well. Mr. Chevron simply takes advantage of it." "That good at his job, is he?" asked Sarek. "Indeed. Extremely good.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men—at least they can cry.

Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born

And experience had already instructed Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people

Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people.