Advantage Quotes
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron
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Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.
Edmar Mednis
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Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!
Aquaria
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."
William H. Macy
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Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.
Eric A. Havelock
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
Plutarch
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Raoul Vaneigem
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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.
Jane Austen
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I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.
James Butler Hickok
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A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.
Gene Autry
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Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team.
Johnny Giles
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Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
Seth Lloyd
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
Niklas Zennstrom
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Another thing I like about German cities - and it's an advantage which they haven't sufficiently exploited yet - is that they are pioneers when it comes to environmental technologies. And green solutions are becoming more and more important.
Charles Landry
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Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.
Alix Ohlin
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
Victor Hugo
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Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
Rich Lowry
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Simply put, we have to take charge and take responsibility and support what's in the marketplace. Because, quiet as it's kept, the powers that be are cognizant of what our spending dollar means. And it is kept a little quiet, and we have to become aware of what we mean in the marketplace and take advantage of it.
Richard Roundtree
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A culture exists within the Ted Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
Benjamin Carson
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There’s not one youngster growing up in the D.C. area in that era who didn’t want to be a boxer. Fighting was a way of life, If you weren’t tough, people would take advantage of you.
Leonard Ellerbe
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Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
Bill Jensen
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When deciding what to do, take advantage of the strengths of where you are.
Nancy Knowlton