Disadvantages Quotes - Page 6

• The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

  Howard Raiffa

  Party, Haste

  Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

  Thomas More

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Despair, Tots, Easier

  "Dear Mariella" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2010.

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• The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

  Bob Parsons

  Communication, Digital, Internet

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarianism, Forever, Vegan Food

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

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• In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

  Thomas Sowell

  Justice, Cost, May

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

  Tony Dungy

  Integrity, May, Doing The Right Thing

  FaceBook post by Tony Dungy from Jan 05, 2016

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• My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

  Ruby Dee

  Dream, White, Racism

  "Remembering Ruby Dee: 'Think Of Me And Feel Encouraged'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 13, 2014.

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• Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Disabled

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• One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

  Jessica Zafra

  Introducing, Advantage, Stolen

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Air, Soldier, Ships

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.56

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• When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to ageing, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.

  Kevin Warwick

  Memories, Two, Aging

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

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• A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Good Luck, Men

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• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Squares, Essentials

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• I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with?

  Nick Mallett

  Couple, Squad, Games

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• For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Evil, Giving

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.3

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

  John Dos Passos

  Effort, Political, Competition

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• It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Desire, Patriot

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.358

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• The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

  Roland Merullo

  Success, Educational, College

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• The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

  Ann Voskamp

  Care, Way, Advantage

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• Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage

  Oscar Pistorius

  Mean, Disabled

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• Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Believe, Four

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• The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."

  Arthur Compton

  Mean, Cutting, Science

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