Advantage Quotes - Page 5

• It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Enjoy

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.423, New York Review of Books

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• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Genius

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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• I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

  Joe Theismann

  Effort, Gains, American Football

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• It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

  Rick Renzi

  Home, Nursing, Order

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• I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Hair, Age, Causes

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• And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

  John W. Snow

  Country, Energy, Coal

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

  Roger von Oech

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Cute, Hands, People

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• I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Years, Silence, World

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Eyebrows, Lease

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• It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

  Valentino Rossi

  Work Out, Understanding, Machines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  Quintilian

  Winning, Yield

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• There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

  Mark Cane

  Using People, Use, Cooperation

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• We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Community, Priorities, Atheism

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• No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

  William Bernbach

  Fall, Matter, Gimmicks

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• I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Believe, Blood, Sorrow

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

  Manuel Puig

  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

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• In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

  Carole King

  Careers, Obstacles, Being A Woman

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• Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Unjust, Winner

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• We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

  Bernard Williams

  Time, Growth, Weakness

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• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

  Paul Keating

  Trying, Use, Idiom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  Larry King

  Mistake, People, Use

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Absence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humble

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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