#disadvantage

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. ↗

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

#i #i think #journal #like #me

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ↗

— Albert Camus

#advantage #always #deceive #disadvantage #first

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#almost #also #audience #brand #building

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bring #disadvantages #enough #him #humility

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#artisan #britain #british #consequently #country

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#blond #blond hair #disadvantage #hair #i

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#changeless #disadvantages #find #least #left

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#appreciate #disadvantage #education #elegance #following

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled