Position Quotes

• You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

  

  Wilbert Rideau
  • Responsibility
  • Person
  • Mediocre

• If he doesn't respect me he should at least respect the position (of match referee), but he made matters worse for himself with his dismissive and rude attitude.

  

  Clive Lloyd
  • Respect
  • Attitude
  • Worse

• Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Active
  • Inertia
  • Expedient

• In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

  

  David Duke
  • Political
  • Support
  • Groups

• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

  

  Confucius
  • Law
  • Desire
  • Honor

• Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Grows
  • Acknowledge
  • Chain

• That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Lose
  • Congregation
  • Pastors

• I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Question
  • Growth
  • Person

• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Intensity

• Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.

  

  Ernst Rohm
  • Friends
  • Revolution
  • Forget

• I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

  

  Bobby Bell
  • Position
  • No Matter What
  • Play Football

• We're not in a position today to set out a specific date or timetable for reaching no high-risk vendors, that would require a new decision to be taken by the National Security Council.

  

  Oliver Dowden
  • Decision
  • Risk
  • Position

• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Different
  • Heart

• Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Action
  • Leadership
  • Example

• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Family
  • Father
  • Enemy

• We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.

  

  William Thurston
  • Thinking
  • Helping
  • Humans

• 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
  • People
  • Want
  • Materials

• Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beauty
  • Abyss
  • Karamazov

• I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

  

  Danny Garcia
  • Persons
  • Boxing
  • Motivated

• Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

  

  Berton Braley
  • Pride
  • Position
  • Snobbery

• 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
  • Idea
  • Position
  • Privilege

• You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Government
  • Position

• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Leadership

• 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
  • Competition
  • Position
  • Coins

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