If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
Alain Prost is in a commanding second position
You can never get more by saying "No. " You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes. "
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I've reached that state.
I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch.
I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good
If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.
Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.
Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.
(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.