Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance. — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
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… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
