Position Quotes

• The guys that are out there now like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.

  

  Brandon Marshall
  • Money
  • Position
  • Quaterback

• Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

  

  Naomi Oreskes
  • Speak
  • Position
  • Scientists

• I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Position
  • Re-shape

• Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Helping
  • Leader
  • Tribes

• I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.

  

  Steve McFadden
  • Rich
  • Position
  • View

• I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Film
  • Position
  • Princess Diaries

• The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.

  

  Gerry Hunsicker
  • Moving
  • Empathy
  • Factors

• Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Judge
  • Students
  • Position

• You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Best
  • Position

• Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

  

  Nick Cummins
  • Family
  • Position
  • Conclusion

• Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. Then, when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention than if you hadn't done that constantly.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Best Job

• Leadership is a choice, not a position

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Choices
  • Position

• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Position
  • Result
  • Compromise

• Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Book
  • Attention
  • Critics

• If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Bigs

• My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Way
  • Position

• Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Choices
  • Looks
  • Persons

• I have stayed in the same position where you left me, so that you can find me again.

  

  Katerina Gogou
  • Find
  • Position
  • Left

• And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Organization
  • Relation
  • Mouths

• The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests – sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It’s not a position I feel comfortable with.

  

  Alex Johnston
  • Wisdom
  • Authority
  • Comfortable

• I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Leadership
  • Role
  • Position

• Those conversations are usually pretty short. He hasn't been in that position much, and I understand where he was coming from.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Understand
  • Position
  • Conversations

• I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

  

  Judith Butler
  • I Think
  • Position
  • Comic

• If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Enough
  • Constitution
  • Agree

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