Best 442 quotes in «position quotes» category

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.

In desperate position, you must fight.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

In my position, I think the best thing I do is just keep girlfriend involved.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

I think there's a prototype we're all looking for, whether it's Brett Favre or Troy Aikman. And everyone's got that picture in their mind of the prototype at the position.

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

I've never been in that position in my life, where I hate a celebrity so much that I want to call them names.

I've never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

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.

I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.