“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.” MenWantBelieveStillsPoliticalCertainPresidentAbilityWiseFailingPositionSucceedOfficeBirdFunctionInstanceMachineryManipulatePublic LifeFledglings Book:What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.” WayMeanSituationLeaderPositionConflictFunctionTraditionalVarietyTenseViewpointsWoman Leader Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.” I CanGoalPositionFunction Author:Steve Nash
“Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.” PeopleIfsMayDoneBodySeemsCareGamesStuffResultsCarPositionFootballBalanceAdvantageFunctionAccidentsYour BodySupposed To BeHealth CareFasterFinding YourselfBe YouAwkwardTraveledTollsFootball GameCar Accident Author:Emmitt Smith
“An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.” PeopleGivingLooksBookSelfFormCommunityReligiousMistakeGracePositionTruth IsStandingFunctionDoctrineRelyIdolsJustificationIdolatryFalse GodsSelf JustificationReligious CommunityScoffers Author:Timothy Keller
“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.” PeopleWantFeelsSeemsArtistNamesPositionSourceOffersAuthorityComfortableFunctionRangePriestsConsolationSurrogates Author:Alex Johnston
“The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.” BodyCertainPositionFunctionDistanceSurfacePainterVisible Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.” ThinkingMenWritingAnimalPositionNormalFunctionTeethBathroomBrushingNormal Things Author:Rod Serling
“If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.” IfsMeanPositionPoliticianFunctionRemoveFulfillingMachinery Author:Malcolm X
“Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.” PeopleIfsMenProblemGivenWhitePositionFunctionFirmWhite ManMilitantUncompromising Author:Malcolm X
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” ImportantRealFormMotivationEnergyLeadershipLeaderRolesPositionCapacityTasksOrganizationFunctionPatternsBeing A LeaderReal PowerFuture LeadersLeadership Roles Author:Margaret J. Wheatley