Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.

If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group.

I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

If you make your relationship with your Inner Being your top priority, and you deliberately choose thoughts that allow your alignment, you will consistently offer the greatest advantage to others with whom you interact. Only when you are aligned with your Source do you have anything to offer another.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my 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.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.