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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

  Curtis Jackson

  Moving, Different, Prepared

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

  Johnny Depp

  Hero, People, Choices

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

  Nick Offerman

  Stubborn, Take A Deep Breath, Breaths

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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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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• I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Groups, Ridiculous

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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