Position Quotes

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

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

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

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

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?

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

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.