"Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position."
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"The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems."
"Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us."
"It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history."
"In the world take always the position of the giver."
"All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation."
"The position you hold and the work you are now doing."
"Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors."
"One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything."
"I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible."
"That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose."
"Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines"
"At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do."
"(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better."
"It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position."
"Alain Prost is in a commanding second position"