#vantage

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#distance #landscape #life #like #live

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artist #crazy #done #entertaining #especially

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#advantage #available #calculation #energy #full

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#being #considerable #degrees #freedom #important

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#dictate #disadvantaged #field #helen #her

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. ↗

— David McCullough

#education #father #had #humanities #i

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#believe #happen #just #loath #people

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

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#always #career #children #generations #hard