Position Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Jim Evans

  Real, Games, Training

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• My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Troops, May

  Stonewall Jackson's statement to Major Heros von Borcke (December 13, 1862) as quoted in Heros von Borcke "Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence" (p. 301), 1865.

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• The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  Strong, Believe, Goal

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• Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

  Chris Lowe

  Ends, Entertainment Business

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• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Organization

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• If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Brain, World

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• If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

  Seth

  Finding Yourself, Poverty, Abundance

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• We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

  Richard Curtis

  Agency, Usual, Hot

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• A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

  Doug Collins

  Jobs, Team, Nba

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• If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

  Ted Turner

  Important, News, Prestige

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Balance, Movement

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• False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Party, Dark

  "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke, (Book IV, Ch. 7), 1689.

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• Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

  John Bright

  Men, Rights, People

  Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.

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• Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.

  Francis George

  Mean, Ideas, Actors

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

  Steve McQueen

  Ideas, Cameras, Ugly

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

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• I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

  David Fincher

  Smart, Believe, Fighting

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Names, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

  Christian Bale

  Successful, Thinking, Able

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.

  Christian Bale

  Talking, People, Creative

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Class, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Character, Love Is, Creating

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

  Andrew Garfield

  Actors, Remember, Autonomy

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.

  Mila Kunis

  Eight, Years, Tv Shows

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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