Advantage Quotes - Page 29

• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Thinking, People

  "Trump: The Art of the Deal". Book by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, November 1, 1987.

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• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

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• The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

  Joni Mitchell

  Strong, Blue, Secret

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• You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

  Richard Hell

  Real, Focus, Relief

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• We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

  Gladys Knight

  Uplifting, Blessed, Responsibility

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• These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Land, Two

  Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

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• Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.

  Lee Evans

  Guy, Frustrating

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• Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

  Ryan Holiday

  Discipline, Perception, Pestilence

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.17, Penguin

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• I think in college they give you a chance to really mature, form yourself and build relationships. I think that’s what a team is all about, and when you build relationships, it shows on the court and that brings out success. I love the whole attitude of staying in college to take advantage of a free education. I just felt like Kentucky wasn’t a fit for me. The whole attitude and approach of the one-and-dones, that’s good for them, that’s their decision. But I think [Duke] Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] is a guru of basketball. I want to learn from one of the best.

  Jabari Parker

  Basketball, Attitude, Team

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• They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.

  Bunny Yeager

  Wanted, Models

  "Bunny Yeager, photographer behind rise of Bettie Page, dies aged 85". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2014.

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• It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Real, Past, Example

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

  Jane Addams

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

  Malcolm Gladwell

  World, Natural, Given

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• The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Results, Ability

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• Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Art, Smoking

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• It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Hours, Life Opportunity

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.577

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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Pleasing Others, Ruling

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• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

  Trent Reznor

  Jumping, Desperate Situations, Come Up

  "Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Neala Johnson, www.heraldsun.com.au. May 16, 2007.

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• Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Marvin Olasky

  Baseball, Spring, Needs

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• If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

  Jay Abraham

  Success, Competition, Marketing

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

  William E. Gladstone

  Needs, Grammar, Certain

  Letter to Mrs. Gladstone on January 14, 1860. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by Francis Wrigley Hirst, p. 242, 1931.

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• Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Mind, Trials, Inconvenience

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