Quotes About Advantage

dealing hands at high speed, blowing cigarette smoke at me, and engaging me in complicated conversations. Meanwhile, I was keeping track of the cards, calculating the percent advantage and my bet size, then playing out my hand using strategies that varied depending on the count. The key was to take it one step at a time, adding a new difficulty only after I became comfortable and relaxed with what I was already doing. What had seemed daunting finally became easy.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?

The results of the trends research overwhelmingly indicated that the role of the TD professional has moved beyond the traditional realm of training design and delivery. Effective talent development requires a proactive, business-partner approach to anticipate and respond to changing needs and to leverage personal capabilities to support organizational strategy and generate competitive advantage.

Era la desigualtat el que feia que els estudis fossin molt penosos per a alguns (per a mi, per exemple), gairebé una diversió per a d'altres (per al Pietro, per exemple)

Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people.

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

The advantage conferred by omnipresent God to every man is in proportion to the percentage of protection from physical attraction towards woman.

The lies spoken selflessly for the advantage of an oppressed person are far better than the truth spoken for the benefit of own and/or other depressed, selfish people.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

I never argued with people who underestimated me. If the accent and the muscles and the movies made people think I was stupid, it worked to my advantage.

The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

Maybe I'm quicker. I can take the ball earlier than a big guy.

I have an advantage over most big guys - I'm quicker and faster.

You get a chance to get the ball every time, you're gonna do better quicker, and you're gonna gain experience faster.

I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.

In the old, on-premises world, we had to make updates client by client. With digital, companies need to move quickly and change quickly, and cloud provides a competitive advantage.

I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

When rain is around, the team batting second gets a huge advantage.

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.

Motorsport is all about gaining as much of an advantage as you can and the FIA are there to make sure I don't gain an advantage over my competitors.