Quotes About Advantage

It is unfair' was a perpetual cry of the Radletts when young. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

The shock doctrine is about overriding these deeply human impulses to help, seeking instead to capitalize on the vulnerability of others in order to maximize wealth and advantage for a select few. There are few things more sinister than that.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Far from being a disadvantage, struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would forever lie dormant without it.

every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage

sometimes a door opens that isn't really a risk, but an opportunity.

The only thing Dis had in common with the Jedi was his connection to the Force. Many Talortai were sensitive to the energy field that bound the universe together, but few of his species ever made use of it, the cowards. They said it wasn't their right, that to do so was somehow immoral. Dis had never understood why. If you were lucky enough to have abilities, shouldn't you use them, hone them to gain an advantage over those who didn't?

I wouldn't say I'm the chunky lad who just goes barge, barge, barge, but being strong is an advantage.

The Lakers fanbase is enormous. Getting the fans on our side is a huge advantage for us.

The advantage I have over every other fighter is my mentality.

Having a mentor gives someone a huge advantage in life.

If you have Messi or Ronaldo you start the game 1-0 up.

I have the advantage of having worked with Messi and Mascherano at Barcelona.

Another advantage millennials have over us Gen-Xers are the dads. They're engaged, involved and not afraid to strap on a Baby Bjorn.

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.

I took a few steps toward the kitchen window although I'd already realized I couldn't look through the kitchen window because, as already mentioned, it's covered with filth from top to bottom. Austrian kitchen windows are all totally filthy and we can't look through them and naturally it's to our greatest advantage, I thought, not to be able to look through them because then we find ourselves staring into the mouth of catastrophe, into the chaos of Austrian kitchen filth.

Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.

What if he had taken full advantage of the tax-advantaged benefit from the time he was first employed? Today he would be a millionaire. Instead, he is on the perpetual earn-and-consume treadmill.

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.

Because passion, like crime, does not like everyday order and well-being and every slight undoing of the bourgeois system, every confusion and infestation of the world is welcome to it, because it can unconditionally expect to find its advantage in it.

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

practically every individual has some advantage over all others because he possesses unique information of which beneficial use might be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.

What seems a more tenable conclusion is that, as economic historian David S. Landes put it, The world has never been a level playing field.