#vantage

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. ↗

— David Attenborough

#adventure #ago #approach #days #didactic

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#advantage #america #cultures #enough #get

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#advantage #always #another #circumstances #gives

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#appear #congress #disadvantage #distinct #families

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #cannot #does #good #man

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for. ↗

— Tony Blair

#great #great advantage #knows #lib #no-one

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#age #because #cause #disability #every