Best 442 quotes in «position quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

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

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 slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

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 won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

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

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.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

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

Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has.

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.

Kellyanne Conway, been one of his most successful advisers, his most successful. Certainly the highest profile women associated with his campaign. Has he offered you a position?

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

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

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

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

[Lionel Messi] is great in any position.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.