Position Quotes - Page 20

• If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Men, Humanity

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• May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Stupid, Character

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• Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

  Mike Huckabee

  Dangerous, Opposing

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• Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

  Bill Lipschutz

  People, Risk, Rewards

  "The New Market Wizards". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1992.

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• 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.

  Douglas Alexander

  Years, Employment, Levels

  House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2006.

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• The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like.

  Gordon Fee

  Greatness, Literature, Kingdoms

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• In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.

  Thomas A. Stewart

  Flow, Organisation, Expertise

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• There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

  Edwin Moses

  People, Safety, Tasks

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• I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

  RZA

  Kings, Knights, People

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.37, Penguin

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• Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Winning, African American, Culture

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• Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Principles, Short Positive

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• I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.

  Frank Knight

  Jobs, Rome, May

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• When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.

  Jason Varitek

  Blessed, People, Realizing

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• Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Arguing, Argument

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• Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?

  Milton Friedman

  Kings, Plato, Selfish

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• Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Russia, Energy, World

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• The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

  George Soros

  Opposites, Assuming, Prevailing

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

  Lauren Alaina

  Winning, People, Unhappy

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

  Edgar Schein

  Roles, Defining, Term

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• I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee, it will be with pride and passion that I carry forward the mandate of the Poet Laureate position for the City of Toronto and its residents.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Passion, Pride, Opportunity

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• Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

  Seymour Krim

  Meaningful, Thinking, Psychosis

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• You've got to love your people more than your position.

  John C. Maxwell

  Love You, People

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.116, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Character, Wealth, Supreme

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• You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Play Hard, Giving

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