Best Advantage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.”

People Want Advantage Uncomfortable

Author:Donna Leon

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.”

Past Force Goal Challenges White Creative Pages Advantage Creative Work Past Success Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

Thinking Leader Democracy Groups Advantage Dependent

Author:Azim Premji

“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.”

Way Real Helping Actors Found Known Style Illusion Advantage Sells Definite Disbelief Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Oren Peli

“Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.”

Has Beens Genius Republican Advantage Throwing Throwing Away

Author:Bob Packwood

“The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.”

Sometimes Able Together Differences Cases Pieces Crime Cold Circumstances Evidence Advantage Victim Decades Witness Interviews Cold Case

Author:Danny Pino

“I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.”

Should Believe Humans Mean Opportunity I Believe Parent Can Do Feminism Advantage Should Have Contradiction Entitled

Author:Anne Roiphe

“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Children Littles Might Mother Courses Huge Balance Advantage Tired Lifting Being A Mother

Author:Melanie Roach

“A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.”

Said Important Games Player Fronts Kings Advantage Opposition Squares Adverse

Book:The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

Source: The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

“For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.”