Quotes About Advantage

Should hyperintelligence matter when we're comparing teams from different decades? Absolutely. It's an era-specific advantage, just like smoking, lowtop sneakers, lack of fitness and rudimentary VD medication were detriments during the Russell era.

A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.

92] Cause and effect. It is then true to say that everyone is the victim of illusion, because the ordinary person's opinions are sound without being intellectually so, for he believes truth to be where it is not. There is certainly some truth in these opinions, but not as much as people imagine. It is true that we should honour the gentry but not because gentle birth is a real advantage.

To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and respected, as another have merited in fifty years. It is a gain of thirty years without trouble.

What a great advantage to be of noble birth, since it gives a man of eighteen the standing, recognition and respect that another man might not earn before he was fifty. That means winning thirty years' start with no effort.

Însa în cazul în care universul l-ar strivi, omul ar fi înca mai nobil decât ceea ce-l ucide; pentru ca el stie ca moare; iar avantajul pe care universul îl are asupra lui, acest univers nu-l cunoaste.

Can I take advantage of you in the limo?" His eyes laughed at me. "By all means, angel mine.

Mother," said Shaina, "you told me I would come to you, and presumably you saw an advantage for yourself in so doing or you would not have troubled. Now, why are you trying to put cold in my heart and water in my bones?" "Because," said Barbayat, turning all the way around now towards Shaina, "it will only make you want him more when I tell you how dangerous it is to want, and how unlikely it is that you will succeed in obtaining more than your death.

That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier.

What then do you think is my advantage over you?

La ciencia tiene frente al arte una gran desventaja: que la ciencia es provisional, es decir, suceptible de mejora.

Ustedes son basura, nada más que basura! ¡Unos pobres gallinazos sin plumas! Ya verán cómo les saco ventaja.

Los que menos corren, vuelan

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

Yes, our competition may have significantly more engineers or significantly more R&D investment. On the other hand, we have significantly more freedom. We have the freedom to innovate.

India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.

I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.

It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.

My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.

Only gradually did I realize that this lack of qualification could be an advantage. By the time most scientists have reached age thirty they are trapped by their own expertise. They have invested so much effort in one particular field that it is often extremely difficult, at that time in their careers, to make a radical change. I, on the other hand, knew nothing, except for a basic training in somewhat old-fashioned physics and mathematics and an ability to turn my hand to new things. I

the concept of "amoral familism," whose code he describes as "Maximize the material, short-run advantage of the nuclear family; assume that all others will do likewise." Cooperation

Maximize the material, short-run advantage of the nuclear family; assume that all others will do likewise.