Position Quotes

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

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

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

What position didn't I play last season?

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.