Position Quotes
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She was devoted to her career. Her heart lay with her position at the U.
Joel Rosenberg -
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
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Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.
Charles F. Haanel -
Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.
Edwin Paxton Hood -
Honestly, we know that we're fighting for a playoff position. I just don't want to settle for the eighth spot. If we play these games out and win most of them, we can get up to the seventh, or maybe even the sixth spot.
Allen Iverson -
Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's.
Jack Roy
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I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
Sarah Silverman -
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
Anne Stuart -
The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.
William McChesney Martin -
I was influenced a lot by my visits to hostels with my mother when I was younger. I learned a lot from it, more so now that I did at the time. My mother used her position very well to help other people, as does my father, and I hope to do the same.
Prince William -
This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't belong in a democracy. These are elected officials who chose to serve the public, and the idea of serving the public doesn't include taking gifts from someone who obviously wants something in return.
Jack Gould -
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Brian Tracy -
Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL Cool J -
I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.
Chuck Klosterman -
He is the player who works hardest here and he plays in a position which isn't his.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo -
The position of Russia is the following: Why don't we have an extraordinary meeting (at the UN), debate the situation then go back to Vienna, continue discussions there and wait for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board meetings in March.
Javier Solana -
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
Andrew Mellon
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
Tom Hanks -
Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one.
Confucius -
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
Esa-Pekka Salonen