Advantage Quotes

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

The Olympics are only once every four years so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

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.

People used to always talk down to me, like, "Oh, you're so young," but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there's a lot more I can do.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

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

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.