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The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.
User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.
I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.
You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
If you don't speak English, then there is no way you can take full advantage of the opportunities that modern Britain has to offer you.
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
The game has slowed down for me. It's so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?
While a pot of boiling water may not offer the char or smoke of a grill, it does give the cook an advantage when it comes to seasoning food.
Honestly, I don't think I'm exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.
Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.
The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.