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“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

“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

“For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Play Games Stupid Advantage Underestimate Disdain

Author:Veronica Webb

“I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.”

Thinking Way May Eye Advantage

Author:Robert Morse

“I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Hard Political Culture Honest Advantage Treats Who I Am Sincere Senators I Am Who I Am Political Culture

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.”

Thinking Should Trying Focus Risk Advantage Sticks

Book:Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

Source: Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

“Heaven is the perfect place to raise children. Everything will be just the way it was intended to be in the beginning, a perfect environment without pain and danger, accidents and death and the horrors of this world. Babies won't have to cry. - They'll have everything they need. We'll be able to read their little minds, and we won't have to wonder what they're needing. Just think of all the advantages of rearing children in Heaven. It will be pure pleasure!”

“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.”

People Thinking Want Littles Sometimes Film Can Do Audience Fields Advantage Harder Yeah Meetings Hbo

Author:Charlize Theron

“Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?”

Thinking Men Government Success Behinds Moral Exercise Office Ethics Men And Women Advantage Fund Officers Secretary Grown Man Moral Leadership

Author:Meg Greenfield

“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.”

People Thinking Men Sometimes Audience Seeing Groups Advantage Sight Addresses Shouting Great Writers Great Wisdom

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.”

Thinking Way Feels Believe Art Advantage Selling Generous Taking Advantage

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.”

Thinking Men War Individual Blood Advantage Tired Rewards Soldier Treasure Peril

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

Thinking Force Process Trouble Advantage Crisis Conclusion Uncomfortable Troublesome

Book:Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.”

Thinking Men Kind Wealth Share Advantage Dignity Providence Trifling

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.”

Thinking Knows Would Be America Poetry Interest Particular Poet Advantage England Distraction Bothered Troublesome Dominating

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong”

People Thinking Can Do Rich Advantage Educational Wealthy Overwhelming Inevitability This Society

Author:Paul Solman

“I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.”

People Thinking World Writing I Can Waiting Mets Research Advantage Around The World Fascinating

Author:Simon Winchester

“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells May Said Sometimes Today Jobs I Believe Black Term White Advantage Starting Educated Occasions Well Educated

Author:Donald Trump

“There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.”

“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”

Thinking Men Believe Asks Attitude Quality Support Virtue Particular Circumstances Advantage Complexes Humanism Definitions Tolerance Prize Cherish Flexibility Stature Amenities

Author:Lionel Trilling

“A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.”

Thinking Giving Strong Enemy Cutting Victory Advantage Pursuit Routes

Author:Alexander Suvorov

“A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.”

Thinking Ideas Age Wealth Mistake Cases Economy Computer Advantage Fund Files Shrinking Hedge Fund File Sharing

Author:Jaron Lanier

“I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.”

Thinking Giving I Can Reason Conditions Type Advantage Give Me Fishes Weather Reason Why Fishing Bass Tournaments Rainy Fisherman Bad Weather

Author:Gary A. Klein

“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.”

People Thinking World Trying Kind Higher Advantage Be Kind Compassionate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

Thinking Men Opportunity Chance Ability Break Advantage Luck

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Home Lying Sports Advantage Crowds

Author:Frank Lampard

“Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.”

Thinking Needs Reason Together Form Style Television Shapes Advantage Yeah Puppeteer

Author:Jim Henson

“The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.”

Thinking Way Should Made Use Mistake Technology Music Is Reflection Advantage Studios

Author:Corey Taylor

“I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.”

People Thinking World Should Attention Advantage

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.”

Ifs Thinking Men Advantage

Author:Don Herold

“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.”

Thinking World Humans May Stills Use Natural Human Beings Animal Technology Advantage Machines Bounds Intimacy Ease Natural World Intercourse

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.”

Thinking Humans Brain Our Lives Anxiety Resources Advantage Incredibles Human Brain

Author:Shawn Achor

“More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.”

Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Problem Know How Effects Conscious Advantage Solve Unconscious Adaptation Gadgets

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.”

Ifs Thinking Men Looks Made Character Sex Christianity Novel Buddhism Majors Advantage Islam Made It Distinction Hinduism Judaism

Author:Katha Pollitt

“I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.”

“I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.”

Thinking Men Feels Purpose Girl Strong Causes Advantage Foundation Sensitive Purpose Of Life

Author:Shay Mitchell

“Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling), and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.”

“You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.”

Thinking May Remember Rooms Nice Like You Walking Advantage Clean Privacy Your Room

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.”

Thinking Needs Order Virtue Fire Standards Advantage Cooking Variety Fancy Fooled Gadgets Kettles Weber

Author:Barton Seaver

“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.”

Thinking Men Should War Law Young Reading Left Term Mankind Advantage Convinced Young Man Allies Travel And Tourism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.”

Thinking Knows Way Kids Opportunity Parent Perfect Mistake Struggle Gratitude Advantage Helpful Messed Up Expressing Gratitude Taking Advantage Squandering

Author:Emily Yoffe

“The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.”

Thinking Men Two Stories Choices Politics Heaven Hell Minutes Dying Advantage Election Climate Ministers Best Place Places To Go Clergymen Undecided

Book:MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…

Source: MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…

“You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.”

“As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage.”

Thinking Knows Use Actors Imagination Draws Advantage Familiar Best Things

Author:Vince Vaughn

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Ideas Order Magic Mystery Reader Discovery Advantage Valuable Awe Reverence Display Selection Texture Accompany Subtext

Author:Toni Morrison

“You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Fun Advantage Gold Winner Remembered Silver Runners Runner Up

Author:Simon Cowell

“I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.”

Thinking Way Writing Shows Together Periods Happenings Advantage Productions Speed Posts Guts Post Production

Author:Will Forte

“I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.”

People Thinking Looks Stills Girl Born Fields Advantage Intelligent Profession Glad

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard