Position Quotes - Page 2

• Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Politics, Want

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.111, St. Martin's Press

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• It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Responsibility, World, Advantage

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• In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Opportunity, Trying, Opinion

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• When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Blessed, Player

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• Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

  Count Basie

  Funny, Music, Way

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• In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

  Kate Chopin

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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• The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

  Reggie Bush

  Running, Player, Thinking

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• To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Couple, Opportunity, Doors

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• I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Trying, Relaxed, Ifs

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• I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Fighting, Play, Style

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• In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Long, Mind Your Own Business, Assets

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• A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Would Be, Columbus

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, War, Enemy

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• If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Making Love, Mind, Shade

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

  Guy Laliberte

  Nice, Believe, Garden

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• 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.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Live Life, Heart

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• In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Order, Ignorant, Never Quit

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• Leadership is a choice, not a position

  Stephen Covey

  Choices

  "Voices on Leadership: Stephen R. Covey". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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• America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Mean, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

  Lena Dunham

  Position Of Power, People, Young

  "Lena Dunham Is Building an Empire". Interview with Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2012.

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• If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I enjoy telling these stories that I ultimately think get a disservice on a lot of network television. I enjoy getting people to change their perspective. I enjoy pushing myself into learning and understanding things from a very different point of view. It's scary to do that. It's scary to kind of put yourself in somebody else's position.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

  Adam Anderson

  Creativity, Trying, Band

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

  James Cromwell

  People, Regulation, Different

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.

  Alex Kozinski

  Strong, President, Constitution

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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