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“By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.”

Position Products Directors Ethics Management Reputation Accomplishment Work Ethic Great Work Negotiating Great Work Ethic

Book:Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship

Source: Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship

“In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.”

People Position Sympathetic

Author:Peter Asher

“It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.”

Position Harder

Author:Kirsty Coventry

“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”

Humans Wells Suffering Position Masters Walking Sorrow Eating Understood Window Opening

Author:W. H. Auden

“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.”

Government Law Lying Liberty Principles Subjects Position Citizens Foundation Deny Command Civil Rights Officials Exceptional Civil Liberties Government Officials Law Courts

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.”

Knows Culture Father Justice Talking Democracy Position Diversity Social Justice Minorities

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.”

Thinking Persons Might Position Keys Resources Personal Growth Coffee Cups Experts Decent Plus Self Motivation Cents Exposure Professionalism Referring Coffee Cup

Author:Bob Burg

“The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.”

Way Strong Results Enemy Successful Records Military Position Circumstances Direct Pressure Consistently Commanders Under Pressure

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.”

Ifs Way Should War Strong Force Lines Principles Military Policy Position Resistance Opponents Climbs Retreat Ladders

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.”

Light Position Divine Offers Messages Angel Guidance Willingness Right Time Messengers Divine Guidance

Book:Angel Days

Source: Angel Days

“Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.”

Ifs Might Force Ability Power Position Coerce

Book:The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

Source: The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

“If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.”

Ifs Want Believe Persons Enough Lying Politics Position Authority Ridiculous

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.”

Eye Desire Force Wealth Position Fame Possession Over You Consumerism Lamps Overconsumption Vigilant Beacons

Author:John of the Cross

“Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.”

Position Students Succeed Rate University Bars Grades Passages Qualified

Author:Mary Kissel

“The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position.”

Position Senate

Author:Amy Walter

“I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Important Facts Political Culture Lost Realizing Rocks Position Conscious Aspect Empowerment Dialogue Punk Express Yourself Punk Rock

Author:J. Robbins

“Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.”

People Looks Country Position International Israel Recovery Symbols Persecuted

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.”

Should Spiritual Powerful Position Heavy Confused Texas Governors Lifting Schwarzenegger Heavy Lifting

Author:Kinky Friedman

“When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Long Use Able Values Can Do Position Balls Commit Naked Shock You Can Do It Lit Feels Right Push Ups Shock Value

Author:Charlize Theron

“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”

World Children Fighting Grows Difficult Natural Growing Up Rights Position Mouths Our Children Your Children Right Thing Natural Rights

Author:Jamie Bell

“I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.”

Feels Play Character Deals Position Relate

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.”

People Thinking Want Position Particular Discredit

Author:Robert Reich

“As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.”

Knows Stills Views Greater Position Ought Equal Benefits Accounts Workers Point Of View Expected Campaigns Saving Savings Savings Accounts

Author:George H. W. Bush

“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.”

“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.”

Fall Loss Position Higher Ambition Raises My Ambition Blinded

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.”

Knows Enough Dies Force Position Masters Intelligent Endure Insight Wealthy Persevere Having Strength

Author:Laozi

“ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.”

Matter Views Knowing Crime Position Criminals Guilty Attorney Fees Complicity Accomplices

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Sometimes Seems Together Position Bases Wander Strings Absurdity Incongruity

Book:The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

“I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.”

Thinking Giving Girl Boys Successful Position Ought Bases Paid Devotion Impress Miscellaneous Unselfish Boy And Girl Successful Marriage

Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.”

World Dream Success Artist Secret Position Standing Artistic Faculty Twins Gifted Selective Mediators

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!”

Ifs Men Wonderful Trouble Position Taught Drawing

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.”

Doe Light Sun Position Color Painting Bears Landscape Comparison Brightness Vivacity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”

People Ifs Eye Levels Streets Figures Position Ought Higher Models Draws Drawing Portraits

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.”

Knows War Shows Political Danger Position Guilt Start Wars

Author:Jimmy Carter

“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.”

Has Beens Seems Position Responsible Series Intolerance Impatience Provocation

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.”

Ifs Want Has Beens Desire Position Obsession Vulnerable Vulnerability Loser

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”

Men Wells Earth Science Belief Lines Knowledge Position Expression Unique Importance Raised Strive Well Being Importance Of Science

Author:Marie Curie

“The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.”

Ifs World Country Spirit Business Position Adventure Cease

Author:Andrew Mellon

“Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.”

Winning Position Victory Battle Bravery Warrior Cleverness Prevailing Flukes Good Warrior

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.”

People Giving Littles I Can Political Life Is Opportunity Advice Position Down And Defeat Burden Officials Political Life

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.”

Play Would Be Position Pure Goods Ownership Continuing Retail Retailers

Author:Jack Smith

“If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Position Painting

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.”

Feelings Culture Women Study Records Position Personality Bases Fundamentals Drawing Parallels Uncovering

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.”

Light Remember Enemy Position Painting Accounts Colour Gray

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.”

Universe Fronts Position Bed Crosses Rose Sat Old Fashioned Eccentric Eccentricity Lotuses Inquiring Rambling

Author:Prince Charles

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!”

People Real Seems Artist Sides Pay Position Lifetime Painter Honour Compliment Showers Real Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.”

Helping Able Opportunity Results Design Position Projects Tools Charity Incredibles Enjoyed Fund Phenomenal Do It Yourself

Author:Tim Allen

“I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.”

Knows Art Artist Position Critics I've Learned Activist Dislike

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.”

Ifs Knows World Want Soul Whole Eye Spirit Fans Position Injustice Whole World Your Soul Want Me

Author:Lady Gaga

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