Position Quotes

• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  

  David Alan Harvey
  • Film
  • Creative
  • Danger

• American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Winning
  • Economy
  • Tricky

• 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 am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

  

  David Benatar
  • Illusions
  • Misunderstood
  • Clearly

• The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

  

  Celinda Lake
  • Organization
  • Rejection
  • Headings

• You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • World
  • Evil
  • Hands

• But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

  

  William Bayliss
  • Giving
  • Moments
  • Enough

• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Believe
  • Adults
  • Arts

• 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

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

  

  Cory Booker
  • Action
  • Leadership
  • Example

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

  

  Berton Braley
  • Pride
  • Position
  • Snobbery

• 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

• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • People
  • Financial
  • Causes

• Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Position
  • Missionary
  • Just Because

• To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

  

  Moses Malone
  • Thinking
  • Determined
  • Offensive

• I will do that. Everything that matters right now is that I'm with the Cubs, and I'm in a good position now. I don't have to get hurt. Like I said, my main concern is to be with the Cubs and help the Cubs.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Help
  • Concerned
  • Matters

• Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

  

  Carl Joachim Friedrich
  • Tolerance
  • Himself
  • Deny

• When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Giving
  • Gift
  • Position

• The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

  

  Joseph Chilton Pearce
  • Power
  • Position
  • Comfort

• 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

• Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

  

  Nikki Turner
  • Picture
  • Perspective
  • Position

• Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

  

  Homer
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Possibilities

• There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • Writer
  • Position
  • Abortion

• We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

  

  Jimmy Webb
  • Position
  • Songwriters
  • Fisherman

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