Quotes About Position

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

You are in the right position when you allow the glory of the new life to cause you to act. Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.

Everybody has to be somewhere!

Jedermann will seinen Platz an der Sonne. (Wenn's geht, im Schatten.)

Now, the edges of these memories sharpen. I see the cracks in the studio floor beneath her feet, The lack of turnout in her fifth position.

Nowhere else would Napoleonic troops encounter soldiers who fought as fanatically or bravely when defending a position; a famous epigram said that you not only had to kill the Russian soldier, you had to then push him over.

From a contemporary interpersonal point of view, there is no emotionally neutral position. The analyst will get caught up in the patient's dynamics no matter how hard he tries not to. The very idea that he might be free of the interactional mix itself is a problem, because it blinds the analyst to his own involvement and requires the patient to collude in that denial. Thus

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

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

The band members' voracious appetites for all kinds of music and their enthusiasm for spreading the word about it was a big part of the networking process. "We were, on the one hand, trying to take it all in," says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, "and on the other hand, using whatever position we had to reflect people back out to see a larger world.

It's Officer, actually. Where are you

That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

It's up to you to dictate your business's rate of growth as best you can by understanding the key processes that need to be performed, the key objectives that need to be achieved, the key position you are aiming your business to hold in the marketplace.

Strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position, involving a different set of activities.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.