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Advantage Quotes - Page 9

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

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

Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

"Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.69, London : R. Bentley

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

"Unfortunate that I am being held responsible for Kingfisher Airlines' difficulties: Vijay Mallya". ET Now interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. January 10, 2013.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

"Thinking Outside the Box Office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.235

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

Every advantage has its tax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.103, e-artnow (Open Publishing)