Advantage Quotes

"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity"

George Soros, Businessman

"While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"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"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"We're not murderers. We're just businessmen who take advantage of opportunities"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

"Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school"

Gwen Moore, Politician

"We want to learn all the game and play the best way and take to our advantage"

Peter Bondra, Athlete

"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, Philosopher

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it"

Pierre Cardin, Designer

"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

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

John Tesh, Musician

"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

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

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities"

Leonard Woodcock, Activist

"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

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

Walter Kaufmann, Philosopher

"I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

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