We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate… — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage. — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Our ability to create that one-on-one engagement with a customer is a point of differentiation and a strategic advantage for us. — Mindy Grossman Copy Share Image
I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate"… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Adversity is a huge advantage - as long as you think of it as an advantage - because it helps you do… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
UTC is very well positioned to take advantage of 2 large megatrends: urbanization and the fast-growing commercial aerospace market. — Louis R. Chenevert Copy Share Image
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not… — Yossi Vardi Copy Share Image
Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
