Advantage Quote by Stephen Potter Download Open image “Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.” — Stephen Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advantage Gains Gambit Ploy
We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
“Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with some degree of knowledge — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa. — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image