#advantage

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#could #did #early #everything #gain

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#action #advantage #always #between #comedy

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#altruism #because #been #confer #continuing

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#beings #complex #complexity #human #human beings

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. ↗

— Francis Darwin

#discoveries #exceptions #extreme #go #him

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#come #contact #i #into #many

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#course #education #gave #gone #had

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#ambition #historical

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#being #constantly #discoveries #disorderly #exciting