Football is a sport of opportunities – if you are prepared, you can take advantage of them.

There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system – get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition – it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

Failures teach us invaluable lessons.

Adaptability and resilience are key to long-term success.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good.

It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Listen to your elder’s advice not because they are always right, but because they have more experience of being wrong.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Humor is a great way to deal with the absurdities of life. It’s often the best way to cope with the challenges we face.

The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.

You can’t let people take advantage of you. Go get that ass.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience – I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It’s definitely something that’s helped me with my game.

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.

The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn’t limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I’ve been abroad for almost twenty-five years.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

Give me an opportunity, I’m going to take advantage of those opportunities.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one

I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.

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

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

valThe value of an idea lies in the using of it

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

The most overrated virtue in life is ‘niceness,’ and the main advantage of America over Europe is that it has fewer ‘nice’ people.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

For me, it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course, the opportunity to ‘mince about’ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

I’m not the kind of guy who’s taking advantage of my position.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and indiscipline in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you ever seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

A people… who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

It’s strictly business in this game, still they faking friendly. Don’t let them take advantage of you.

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

One must know how to use the daylight to advantage.

The method of “postulating” what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.