Top 1200 Taking Advantage Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

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

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

When I see a guy on the football field huffing and puffing, I know I got an advantage over him.

One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

In Japan, when I went there, there was no professionalism at all. But the biggest advantage was that everyone was united and wanted to progress from amateur football to professional.

At the start of my career, I had a problem focusing for 90 minutes, but that's the advantage of football: it's a team game.

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

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

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

That one thing that people say about me taking plays off, I feel like somebody said that when I was playing in college and it has followed me throughout my career. Because I feel like if we had the film and you wanted to pick one person who was taking a play off on a particular play, you could pick anybody.

Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Before the term 'viral video' came out, we used the mass media to our advantage.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

I use the right hemisphere of my brain and what I have is this advantage that makes me exceedingly interesting in pro wrestling.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.

It's awesome where I am right now. It's a lot of people's dream. I'm going to take full advantage of it.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

With my jump shot, once I get that consistent, I feel like that is going to be a huge advantage for me.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!

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.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white photographs), with a compressed summation that precludes any possible continuation. And so it is a leave-taking from thoughts and feelings of my own on a very basic level. Not that this is a deliberate act, of course; it is a quasi-automatic sequence of disintegration and reformation which I can perceive, as always, only in retrospect.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

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

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

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.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I think the other guys, they have advantage to me when they play with six or eight racquets in one match.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

A guy who is walking out of his crease purposefully because he wants to take advantage is wrong.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.