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“I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.”

Thinking Problem Age Beautiful Position Weight Don't Change

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.”

Ifs Knows Want Stories Asks Cases Position Favors Punishment Death Penalty Capital Punishment

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.”

“If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.”

Ifs Political Politics Economy Position Activity Authority Institutions Financial Tendencies Fringe Disruptive Constrain Financial Institutions

Author:Hyman Minsky

“The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.”

“Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.”

Leadership Influence Position Authority

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Some people are into position, not the mission.”

People Leadership Position Missions

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.”

Christian Spiritual Form Leadership Forget Position Pride Proud Appointments Spiritual Gifts Spiritual Pride

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?”

Wells Atheism Information Position New Information

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us."”

“Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.”

Position Standing Where You Are Insperational

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.”

Guy Position Golf Golfers Golf Course Golfing Golf Life Motivational Golf

Author:Tom Watson

“You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.”

Thinking Believe Children Persons I Believe Issues Position Serious Office Racism Killing Abortion Fraud Unborn Endorsements Public Office Bribery Unborn Child

Book:A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.”

Ifs Firsts Funny Next Views Position Argument Stress Witty Point Of View Finding Yourself Next Time

Book:The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

Source: The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

“There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.”

Matter Position Involved No Matter What Abortion Pregnant Penalties Death Penalty Pregnant Women

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.”

Humans Made Light Natural Moral Position Judgment Concern Primaries Human Life Candidates Abortion Conception Moral Judgment Natural Death

Author:Francis George

“When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.”

Heaven Felt Position Sitting Skins Flying Planes Dry Los Angeles Honey Milk Spain Massage Milk And Honey

Author:Carolina Herrera

“This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.”

“A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.”

People Believe Persons Stills Country Running Responsibility Alive Position Our Country Our Society Holocaust Irrational Unlikely Great Power Hoaxes Power And Responsibility

Author:Sam Harris

“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives”

Heart Mean Reason Political Desire Vision Economy Economic Position Planets Future Offers Cooperation Destroying Sane Sustainable Development Political Economy Meltdowns Fruitful Life

Author:Oliver James

“Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.”

Real Games Position Training Instinct Looking Back

Author:Jim Evans

“If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.”

Ifs World Has Beens Differences Mystery Position This Life Acknowledge

Book:Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.”

Men Power Position Trifles

Author:George A. Smith

“When you do not know what to do, relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest. Remind yourself that in many ways you are a very successful person as you are. Success does not necessarily involve great intellect or great position or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.”

Knows Way Giving Persons Doe Remember Wealth Successful Position Integrity Intellect Relax Portions Successful Person

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!”

Ifs Thinking Looks Moments Helping Reality Position Tragedy Newspapers Frightened Organize Hopelessness Helplessness Your Mom

Author:Seth

“My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!”

May Failing Military Position Driven Troops

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.”

World Way Believe Wells Helping Energy Strong Grows Goal Growth Seeing Achieve Position Cost Demand Lows Fundamentals Clean Wave Customers Pool Volume Lofty Clean Energy Lofty Goals

Author:Alan Armstrong

“Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.”

Ends Position Entertainment Business

Author:Chris Lowe

“And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.”

Thinking Trying Might Form Artist Natural Position Shapes Organization Cameras Photographer Forests Traditional Rhythm Visuals Steel Aluminum

Author:John Sexton

“I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.”

People Thinking World Way Stories Shows Beautiful Speak Position Industry Sitting Passionate Entertainment Telling Stories Entertainment Industry Story People

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.”

Ifs Seems Faces Community Position Islam Provocation Muslim Community

Author:Sam Harris

“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.”

Whole Earth Moving Lying Heaven Stars Taken Middle Position Shapes Distance Size Astronomy Fixed Spheres Cosmology Ratios

Book:Ptolemy's Almagest

Source: Ptolemy's Almagest

“If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.”

Ifs World Inspirational Persons Has Beens Action Natural Brain Position Surveys Enviromental

Author:John Adams

“If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.”

Ifs Poor Poverty Conditions Position Circumstances Abundance Finding Yourself Remedy Personal Relationships Poor Health

Author:Seth

“You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen”

Happens Position Willing Good Things

Author:Robin Roberts

“We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!”

Position Hot Agency Usual

Author:Richard Curtis

“A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.”

Want Important Jobs Lasts Courses Games Chance Team Minutes Position Seven Coaching Nba Closing

Author:Doug Collins

“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.”

Writing Years Made School Film Position Scripts Variety Shorts Film School Before And After Writing Scripts

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.”

Games Position

Author:Ashley Olsen

“Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.”

People Certain Difficult Policy Position Benefits Inequality

Author:Tim Ryan

“If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.”

Ifs Important Position News Crisis Prestige

Author:Ted Turner

“New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.”

Whole New York Movement Position Balance Walking Performers Circus Juggling

Author:John Lindsay

“Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.”

Giving Might Answers Cases Position Integrity Independence Court Supreme Senators Committees Predictions Supreme Court Hints Forecasts

Author:John Roberts

“False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.”

Interest Dark Party Fashion Position Prejudice Reverence Maxims Doubtful

Author:John Locke

“Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.”

People Ifs Men Want Care Poor Rich Rights Week Position He Man Comfort Six Take Care Protest Want Me Parliament Great People Defenders Cottages Large Family Infringement

Author:John Bright

“When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Happens Natural Break Practice Cases Meditation Awareness Identity Position Illusion Witness Mystical Transcendent

Author:James Redfield

“We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.”

Ifs Men Wells May Stills Law Poor Race Practice Wife Air Position Flow Breathe Envy Chains Ashamed Dominion Polygamy Monogamy Narrow-minded

Author:George A. Smith

“Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.”

Mean Ideas Certain Actors Individual Belief Interest Position Ideology Public Life Life Means

Author:Francis George

“There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.”

Ideas Sometimes Film Language Position Cameras Ugly Angle Spectacular Unfamiliar

Author:Steve McQueen

“It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.”

Mind Kind Hands Half Position Industry Independent Following Cult Rockers

Author:Ben Folds

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