A Quote by Emanuel Lasker

He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

Emanuel Lasker

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Emanuel Lasker
German - Chess Player
December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

Ovid

Being young and extremely naive and coming from a very sheltered place has been a slight disadvantage to me because in Edinburgh, if you meet someone and they're nice, they just become your friend.

Nina Nesbitt

There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.

George Soros

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

John Constable

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.'

Carol Leifer

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

Carol Leifer

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Mark Twain

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

Luc de Clapiers

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

Susan Cain

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Jurgen Klopp

If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character.

John Viney

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.