Zitat des Tages über Großer Vorteil / Great Advantage:
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
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.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.
We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.
