#advantage

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bring #disadvantages #enough #him #humility

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. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#advantage #breaks #chances #gets #grab

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. ↗

— David Gower

#advantage #been #captain #game #get

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#air #back #being #close #cuts

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#along #alot #another #better #come

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

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

— William Hazlitt

#advantage #always #another #best #blockhead

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #descend #despicable #idiot #lower

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

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. ↗

— Jim Henson

#any #form #gave #had #having