Advantage Quotes - Page 33

• I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

  Carol Leifer

  Unique, Minorities, Facts

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• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

  Neil Armstrong

  Unique, Flying, Machines

  "Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story". www.popularmechanics.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Wheels, Common

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• One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Edits

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.

  Legs McNeil

  Real, Stupid, Creativity

  Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain (2006). “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk”, p.334, Grove Press

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• For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

  Neal Stephenson

  Oxygen, Atmosphere, Trying

  "In the Kindom of Mao Bell" by Neal Stephenson, www.wired.com. February 1, 1994.

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• The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Want, Natural

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Listening, Trying

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• Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Brother, Children, Teaching

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• I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Southern, Quality

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• The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

  Ian Chappell

  England, Bowling, Cricket

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• There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

  Jack Welch

  Two, Competition, Action

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• Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

  Bob Herbold

  Inspirational, Ideas, Individual

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• Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Powerful, Order, Boss

  "NBC Uses Lewinsky Interview to Silence Talk of Clinton Scandals". www.newsbusters.org. April 18, 2016.

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• If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Running, People, Amputees

  "Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamber" by Gary Morley and Robyn Curnow, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Heart, Athlete, Technology

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• Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

  Edouard Manet

  Names, Sound, Monet

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• Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

  Jon Krakauer

  Book, Past, Mind

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.

  Sheldon Richman

  Keys, Incomplete Knowledge, Careers

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• The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

  Lou Holtz

  Team, Goal, Needs

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• While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

  Bill Shuster

  Government, America, Generosity

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• Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Class, Financial, Rich

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