Advantage Quotes

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Every advantage has its tax.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

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

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

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.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

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

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.