A Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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Advantage Attack Endangered Lose Obliged Otherwise

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Wilhelm Steinitz
American - Celebrity
May 17, 1836 - August 12, 1900

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

Savielly Tartakower

Everybody is trying to take advantage of situations, and if you don't take advantage of a situation, you get taken advantage of by somebody else.

Chase Elliott

My advantage is attacking, regardless of who's in front of me. That's my advantage. And I've got to use my advantage to help my team and help myself.

Russell Westbrook

Having information that the other side doesn't have gives VCs an advantage... they take advantage of entrepreneurs who haven't been through this before... they were totally willing to take advantage of us.

Mitchell Kapor

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

Reggie Jackson

In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

Walter Bagehot

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

Suzanne La Follette

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

Rusev

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

Twyla Tharp

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Emanuel Lasker

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

Laura Bush

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

Robert Breault

Motorsport is all about gaining as much of an advantage as you can and the FIA are there to make sure I don't gain an advantage over my competitors.

Billy Monger

I don't back down. Like, I don't know how to flop. That's never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can't make open jump shots, I have an advantage.