Racing is a battleground. You have to fight for every inch, every position.

The season developed and matured. Another year’s instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position

I started off as a right-winger, but my coaches pushed me further and further back. So much so that I ended up in defence, because I wasn’t good with my hands and there was nowhere else to go! So they put me there and that’s when I found my position.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you’re sitting in pole position to win

I can play in any position except goalkeeper

I played in different positions as a kid, and it helped me learn different parts of the game, but I found that I was always scoring goals, and that continued as I got older. I’ve always enjoyed scoring, and it seemed to come naturally. Fortunately, that has carried on into my professional career.

Nine or ten, I like playing both. I like to score goals, and I feel in both positions I can score goals.

We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing, we’re constantly making mistakes, we’re constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

Whenever I get opportunities at the top of the order, that’s the position I enjoy.

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience

I don’t feel political most of the time. Sometimes I’m placed in positions because no one else will go there.

I wasn’t making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it’s one of the more undervalued positions.

I’m a baller. Put me in the position to make plays, I’m going to make plays.

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Pressure is being brought to bear by the people in the streets, especially by the poor and by the young, so that movement leaders are always in a position of having to assess, very carefully, their tactics.”

Right now we’re in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one’s mind, or to define oneself – there is no wish I make more often.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don’t have to teach. Never.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

I’ve put myself in this position where I haven’t set myself up with a Plan B. I don’t have a safety net; it’s all in.

I can’t understand it. The very name of the savior is in the name of the church. The New Testament is a fundamental scripture for us. I can’t understand why they take that position.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

It was the Congress that imposed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

I don’t know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more

Very less thrust was needed initially to communicate their position and ours.

There’s always a rainbow at the end of every rain.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

I’m not the kind of guy who’s taking advantage of my position.

I hope I’m in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power.

Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get ill, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his teens, running in debt. He meets a chum and says, Look at this I have got trusted for a new suit of clothes. He seems to look upon the clothes as so much given to him; well, it frequently is so, but, if he succeeds in paying and then gets trusted again, he is adopting a habit which will keep him in poverty through life. Debt robs a man of his self respect, and makes him almost despise himself.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

What is’ is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win

Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn’t need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn’t like.

Our starting position was a bit compromised, i know it’s going to be difficult to the end but I think that’s nice. It keeps it exciting.

We were racing for position today but you need two people to work together to make the corner and Lewis just kept squeezing until there wasn’t room anymore for two cars and that’s when we crashed.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

There comes a point, I think, as you get a little older, you feel that nothing represents you. You can see the value of many positions, even positions that are in savage conflict with one another. You can locate components on both sides that resonate within you.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

I’m blessed to be in a position to be able to inspire others.

Pressure is a privilege; it means you’re in a position to succeed.

I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me, but rude to a waiter because they would treat me the same if I were in that position.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

If you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul … it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

I come from a place between the bricks where it was hard at.

Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L’Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I’d be associated with them.

Now each race is different every time because it’s a different journey to get to it – the difficulties you faced getting the car into that position. I manage myself. I chose my team myself. So there’s a huge satisfaction for me.