Position Quotes - Page 23

• I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.

  Miguel Tejada

  Play, Needs, Body

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• I just need to be in a position where I can control the ball, make smart decisions, and do what I'm coached up to do.

  Carson Palmer

  Smart, Decision, Needs

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• I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

  Chamique Holdsclaw

  Successful, Past, Granted

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• If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Benefits, Want, Helping

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• Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

  Morgan Ensberg

  Reactions, Thirds

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• You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

  Brian Urlacher

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Highest

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• I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

  Robinson Cano

  Runners

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• I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.

  Garrett Atkins

  Years, Play, Guy

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• To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

  Chad Pennington

  Team, Quarterback, Bad Things

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• A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Believe, Hero, Thinking

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• I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

  Justin Verlander

  Player, Thinking, Special

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• Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Fighting, Violence

  Speech as the official date for Indian independence approached, June 16, 1947.

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• We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.

  Paul Stookey

  Song, Taken, Differences

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• Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.

  Greg Smith

  Ideas, Example, Today

  "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" by Greg Smith, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  "EL Doctorow obituary" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

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• In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

  Ahmed Kathrada

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Strong, Moving, Games

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• You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mother, Running, Listening

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• And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.

  Geneva Overholser

  Moving, Taken, Media

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• The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.

  Simon Critchley

  Commitment, Reality, Thinking

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• Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Emotional, Justice

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• Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Men, Hands

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• Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Mirrors, Perspective

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• Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'

  Halford Luccock

  Men, Years, Who Cares

  Halford Edward Luccock (1956). “Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes”

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