#position

Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#nice-people #public-life #views #life

Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and tactics and with determination! Don’t commit any foul; don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time because the whistle may blow at any time. Don’t waste the chances you get! Target the goals and with winning in focus, you will be there! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#determination #focus #goals #impact #israelmore-ayivor

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #case

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?* ↗

— William Shakespeare

#imposition #privacy #art

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#blood #disposition #filtered #forever #moods

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#combat #evidence #history #improve #jobs

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#position #skeptical #truly #uncertain #very

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#barrier #general #position #principal

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. ↗

— Bobby Short

#even #opera #position #problematic #tenor