Quotes About Advantage

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy

Why must every individual and every nation tremble for their existence? Because each seeks his own wretched momentary advantage and refuses to subordinate it to the welfare and prosperity of the community.

But men are not content merely desire; they like to have a logical or pseudo-logical justification for their desires; they like to believe that when they want something, it is not merely for their own personal advantage, but that their desires are dictated by pure reason, by nature, by God Himself.

But one of the students was fool enough to ask where the advantage lay. My good boy! The Director wheeled sharply round on him. Can't you see? Can't you SEE? He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability! Major instruments of social stability. Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of bokanovskified egg.

Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.

in the kingdom of the blind," as the French proverb has it, "the one-eyed man is king";

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Those without a conscience, without a soul, had a huge advantage over those burdened by ethics, self-doubt, and decency, as they were capable of epic displays of betrayal and duplicity, without fear, guilt, or remorse ever entering the picture.

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

The second is that if Harvard did not deliberately disadvantage certain groups and advantage others in its commitment to 'affirmative action' policies and diversity criteria in general, the products of Harvard might be worryingly non-diverse. Specifically they might have a student body which disproportionately or even largely consisted not of white Americans or black Americans, but of Asian-Americans and Ashkenazi Jews. Here we get a glimpse of the world's ugliest landmine.

Much of life, however, is characterized by what the sociologist Robert Merton called the Matthew Effect, named after a sentence from the book of Matthew in the Bible, which laments "For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.