Advantage Quotes

• Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Advantage
  • Calculations

• Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Country
  • Painting
  • Speak

• In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Men
  • War
  • Birth

• I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

  

  Will Forte
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Production

• The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Human
  • Advantage
  • Shapes

• I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • Advantage
  • Survive
  • Skin

• I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • People
  • Nice
  • Feels

• There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Want
  • Advantage
  • Linked

• What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Advantage
  • Discovered
  • Brotherhood

• That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Man
  • Right
  • Enlightenment

• I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Things
  • Develop
  • Good parts

• The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

  

  Steve Blank
  • Company
  • Decisions
  • Advantage

• There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Connection
  • Ability
  • Advantage

• I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • People
  • Advantage
  • Ideology

• People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Hard
  • Neighbors

• 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
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Achieved

• It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

  

  Michael Harrington
  • Certain
  • Opportunities
  • Aspiration

• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Memory
  • Advantage
  • Good Things

• There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

  

  Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Death
  • Lose
  • Land

• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Responsibility
  • Media
  • Political Party

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Advantage
  • Governments
  • Promises

• Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.

  

  Alix Ohlin
  • Advantage
  • Cares
  • Least

• What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Intellectual
  • Civilized
  • Primitive

• In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Things
  • Motivational
  • Advantage

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