Disadvantages Quotes - Page 12

• Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.

  Joel Osteen

  Empowered

  Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.427, Hachette UK

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• It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.

  Marcus Garvey

  Views, Organization, Racism

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

  Minoru Mori

  Cities, Environmental, Population

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• God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

  Israel Shenker

  Children, Blessing, Support

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

  William Morley Punshon

  Men, Double Minded, Tides

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• The key to the U.N.'s global warming study was man's use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In a world in which everyone smelled, the French would be at no disadvantage. Aerosol spray. How convenient.

  Ann Coulter

  Men, Keys, Would Be

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• A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Brain, Fool

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• Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

  Gary Larson

  Glasses, House, Bird

  Gary Larson (1984). “The Far Side Gallery”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Weakness, Anomalies

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• 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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• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Drinking, Drunk, Sober

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• Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, Two, Knowing

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• As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Racism, Taught

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• These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple geometric shapes-discs, ovals, spheres, cylinders-and surfaces that looked like metal. Such shapes are not only nonexistent among known aircraft, but contrary to all known theories of flight, in most cases offering control and performance disadvantages rather than advantages.

  Don Berliner

  Simple, Offering, Geometric Shapes

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• If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

  Sam Altman

  Needs, Building Something, Realizing

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• I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

  Gayle King

  Wish, Way, Speed

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• Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Firsts, Influence

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• There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.

  George Soros

  Country, Doubt, Reform

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry.

  Jack Kenny

  Cities, San Francisco, Size

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• I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

  Barbara Mertz

  Christian, Half, Lasts

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping. ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk.

  Steve Fossett

  Jumping, People, Safety

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• The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.

  Sarah Polley

  Self, Doe, Watches

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Sex, Men, Tangible

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