#position

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#himself #his #man #miracle #only

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#culturally #culture #encompass #enough #horizon

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. ↗

— King Hussein

#first #first time #gulf #gulf war #i

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority. ↗

— King Hussein I

#believe #majority #opinion #opposition #policy

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#indeed #kind #nasty #only #position

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#absence #benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. ↗

— John Boorman

#being #defending #defensive #get #good

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#because #better #care #celebrity #certain

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

— Les Brown

#comfort zone #consciousness #expand #forced #outside