Advantage Quotes - Page 35

• It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

  Alexander Pope

  Overcoming, Faults

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.378

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• I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Parent, No Money

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• I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Dream, Kids

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Two, Political, Helping

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• Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

  Christa Wolf

  Night, Color, Secret

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• The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Zero, Book, Long

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• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

  Simon Sinek

  Giving, Ceramics, Roles

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.68, Penguin

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• Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

  Mary Astell

  Infancy Is, Want, Reproach

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

  Susan Blackmore

  Clever, Quality, Males

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• The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

  Michael Porter

  Crush, Jobs, Cities

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• The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Together, Development, Sea Power

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.7, Fireship Press

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• Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

  Leon Blum

  Giving, Choices, Trying

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• Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

  Isaac Barrow

  Math, Foundation, Affair

  Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28

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• And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

  Al Franken

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organizational, Competitive Advantage

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• The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination.

  Nancy Hartsock

  Class, Feminist, Understanding

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• The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
  function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
  and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
  advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.

  Rinus Michels

  Team, Play, Space

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• I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

  Spike Lee

  Blessed, Opportunity, Views

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Men, Views, Ideas

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.7, Routledge

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• Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

  Gil Hodges

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• Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

  Martina Hingis

  Color, Racism, Black

  "Women's Tennis & the Williams Sisters: A Love Match?". "CNN Talkback Live", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2001.

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• The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

  Antisthenes

  Philosophy, Able, Converses

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• Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Animal

  Jane Goodall (2016). “My Life with the Chimpanzees”, p.69, iBooks

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• There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Memories, Moving, Later In Life

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• There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Work, Home

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