Position Quotes

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

I have the most conservative position.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

I have a very hardline position, we have a country or we don't have a country. People that have come into our country illegally, they have to go. They have to come back into through a legal process.

The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain.

I'm very, very strong on energy independence, as you know, and I think that's the most conservative position. And I have the most conservative position on that.

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of readiness and in terms of everything else. We are not capable like we have to be.

Let Obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier, and I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

My family had liberal positions.

I mean, the Obama position has been, "We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it."

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

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.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.