Quotes About Position

Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.

that forgoing recognition of status was a luxury of the recognized.

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

Another way to think about metamessages is that they frame a conversation, much as a picture frame provides a context for the images in the picture. Metamessages let you know how to interpret what someone is saying by identifying the activity that is going on: Is this an argument or a chat? Is it helping, advising, or scolding? At the same time, they let you know what position the speaker is assuming in the activity, and what position you are being assigned.

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

He's all wrong for you," Travis said. "You're the expert? Last I checked, you resigned from that position.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Leadership is all about accountability and responsibility, and it's surely not about the ladder climbing, power and position. True Leader takes the responsibility for the well being of his followers and his organization alike.......and that's the big difference between a Bossand a Leader, in my view.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

Leadership is action, not position

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

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

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Learn good things from professionals but do not change like professional, it doesn't mean on what position they are..

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

Kentucky made no decision adverse to this right of a State, but she declared, in the impending conflict between the States seceding from and those adhering to the Federal Government, that she would hold the position of neutrality.

And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in such a way?" After all, her own sister did. He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.