quotes about Position
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The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.
-- Aaron Paul -
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
-- Al RiesSource : Al Ries, Jack Trout (2000). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional
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Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.
-- Alistair Begg -
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I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.
-- Amanda HoldenSource : "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.
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In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.
-- Amy Carter -
The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.
-- Amy WalterSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
-- Andrea Zittel -
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Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.
-- Antonis Samaras -
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
-- August Strindberg -
But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
-- Auguste LaurentSource : David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, Routledge
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I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.
-- Beanie SigelSource : "Beanie Sigel spits anti-Jay-Z rhymes in online video" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2009.
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Ive been blessed to be in a position to share (my experiences).
-- Ben Vereen -
Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
-- Berton Braley -
It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.
-- Billy Packer -
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In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
-- Biz Stone -
Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
-- Bobby SealeSource : "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.
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Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.
-- Boris Spassky -
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
-- Catherine the Great -
Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
-- Charlene Li -
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I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
-- Charlie Day -
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
-- Charlie Dent -
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.
-- Clive James -
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Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
-- Confucius -
Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.
-- Conor McGregor -
You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
-- Darrell RoyalSource : Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”
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Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.
-- David Cottrell -
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There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
-- David Frum -
There is no off position on the genius switch.
-- David LettermanSource : "Late Show with David Letterman", www.imdb.com. 1993 - 2015.
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Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.
-- David LimbaughSource : "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.
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I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.
-- Don Imus -
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The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
-- Donald Barthelme -
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
-- E. P. Thompson -
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Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.
-- Ed Seykota -
I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
-- Eddie MurphySource : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Mar 05, 2014
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
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Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
-- Eminem -
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I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.
-- Frank Lampard -
Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.
-- Garrison Wynn -
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
-- George Orwell -
Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.
-- Gerald Sinstadt -
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
-- Gertrude Stein -
If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.
-- Gil Scott-HeronSource : "Gil Scott-Heron, my brave and brilliant friend" by Jamie Byng, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.
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I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.
-- Graeme Murphy -
Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
-- Graeme Murphy -
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I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
-- Helen Clark -
Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
-- Helen Clark -
To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
-- Henry Blackaby -
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
If youve got five cameras, youre making sure that youre in the right position for each one of the cameras.
-- Jacinda Barrett -
I always keep myself in a position of being a student.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
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.
-- Jacques Lacan -
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One only really loves from a feminine position.
-- Jacques-Alain Miller -
When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.
-- Jean Alesi -
Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.
-- Jeff Olson -
The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
-- Jennifer ArmintroutSource : "Our Exclusionary Attitudes Toward Self-Publishing Must Change" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.
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I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.
-- Jim Otto -
Whelan was in the position he was, exactly
-- Jimmy Armfield -
Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
-- Joan Jett -
Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,
-- Joe TheismannSource : "Joe Theismann: Kirk Cousins has outplayed RGIII" By Dan Steinberg, www.washingtonpost.com. August 23, 2014.
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
-- John Boorman -
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
-- John C. Maxwell -
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.
-- John Hickenlooper -
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In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.
-- John Loeffler -
If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.
-- John Rawls -
Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.
-- John Thain -
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
-- Jon BrionSource : Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2008.
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...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
-- Jon Speelman -
I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.
-- Jonny Wilkinson -
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
-- Judith Butler -
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
-- Julius Erving -
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It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
-- Jürgen Moltmann -
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
-- Karl Barth -
I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
-- Kathleen Hanna -
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
-- Kathleen NorrisSource : Kathleen Thompson Norris (1914). “Saturday's Child”
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In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
-- Katie RoipheSource : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.61, Canongate Books
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
-- Ken Livingstone -
We are all put in different positions for different reasons.
-- Kim Alexis -
It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.
-- Kirsty Coventry -
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I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
-- Kristin LehmanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.
-- Kyle ChandlerSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
-- Leon Uris -