Advantage Quotes - Page 39

• We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Cooking, Mind, Drink

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• It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

  William Overgard

  Marine, Friendly, Doe

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• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work, Law, Luxury

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.278, Courier Corporation

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• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Long, Giving

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• The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.

  David Graham Phillips

  Time, Men, Important

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• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Views, Giving

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• Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Knights, Games

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• It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

  Shannon Lucid

  People, Female, Tough

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• If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how groups of small objects, when they are well arranged, become important and effective. Remember that repetition is a form of emphasis. Collect what you will, but see to it that you arrange your hobby to its best advantage.

  Dorothy Draper

  Pride, Sight, Small Objects

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• After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Men, Years

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• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  William Farr

  Names, Perfect, Attention

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• All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Hands, People, Effort

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

  John Dewey

  Nihilism, Form, Exploitation

  John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.58, 谷月社

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• That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

  James Lee Burke

  Mind, Age, Care

  Interview with April Henry, www.aprilhenrymysteries.com. 1999.

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• That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Children, Giving, Facts

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• Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

  Laozi

  Lying, Space, Clay

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• Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Math, Profound, Language

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• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

  Winston Churchill

  Clever, Latin, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Spring, Cost Of Living, Cities

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• There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

  Seth Lloyd

  Important, Degrees, Information

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

  J. E. B. Stuart

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Benefits, Chess

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• You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention.

  Esther Hicks

  Negative, Attention, Negative Attention

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• The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Religious

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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