“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.” PeopleThinkingWantPositionParticularDiscredit Author:Robert Reich
“New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.” ThinkingStatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkPositionParticularPursuitBelonging Author:James F. Cooper
“I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.” ThinkingYearsPersonsVoiceOpinionTeacherPositionParticularEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.” TwoCountryWinningPresidentBreakCenturyPolicyPositionBuildingParticularElectionArguingFaithfulPredecessorsBeing Faithful Author:Barack Obama
“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.” PeopleIfsThinkingMayLittlesWarEndsWould BeKidsTogetherValuesNationsDifficultEconomyCenturyStupidPositionParticularAmountMassUglyLandscapeRealisingProsperousRestoration Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.” ShouldPositionParticularArmsDegreesComplexesDrivingFamiliar Author:Umberto Guidoni
“If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.” IfsEconomySubjectsPositionParticularConstitutionAgreePostsDisagreeTopicsEngaging Author:John Jay Hooker
“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.” PeopleWayWholeBodyGovernmentLawPoliticalBeliefSpeakReligiousAtheismPositionParticularClaimsAppearancePositive AtheismDoctrineRejectionFormalLegislationOffendedSanctionsReligious BeliefConstitutional Law Author:Mario Cuomo
“The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.” ThinkingKnowsShouldTryingMayCareAbilityIssuesSubjectsEffectsPositionParticularPlanetsScientistAddressesBroadsEquilibriumGreenhousesGeneral PublicVisibility Author:Richard Lewontin
“In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.” YearsMeanMatterFactsTogetherLawScienceNightValuesInterestHistoryKnowingStudyPossibilityPositionParticularPlanetsMassAccountsHistoricalProfoundSimplicityDetailsWorthyAstronomyMasteryEvery NightSplendourIntrinsic ValueGravitationHistorical Facts Author:Bertrand Russell
“We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.” MayMovingCoursesSeaEffectsPositionObjectsProduceParticularDistanceDetermineSpeedRegionsStationsRelativeGlobesVesselElectrical Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings
“I always felt like I was challenged, I was never satisfied, and I looked forward to the challenge. From studying high school players to studying kids in college, I always studied the competition, at my position in particular, to make sure I set the standard.” KidsSchoolFeltChallengesStudyPlayerPositionCollegeParticularStandardsHigh SchoolCompetitionSatisfied Author:Derrick Brooks
“Yoga is not about having the perfect positions, it's not about who's the best and who's the most flexible. A lot of people are saying to me 'I can't do yoga because I'm not flexible,' but that's exactly why you should do it. It's not about being flexible. It's not about who's the best. It's about doing your best on that particular day.” PeopleShouldI CanPerfectPositionParticularYogaFlexibleDoing Your Best Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.” IfsMeanDoeStillsMovingHumanityRealizingPositionParticularMovedSettingSettingsBlastHarlem Author:Rita Dove
“Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!” IfsRealReligiousLevelsConsciousnessImpossiblePositionParticularApproachLowsIncreaseAbsurdityLow LevelReal Truth Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsWholeKidsCultureInterestingAttitudeKnowingPositionParticularPrideComfortableEmbraceAfrican AmericanItalianComing OutAsianLatinoAsian AmericanBeing IrishItalian American Author:Barack Obama
“Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.” PrinciplesPositionParticularJudgmentEconomicsIndependentObjectivesEthicalShort Positive Author:Milton Friedman
“The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been . floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.” PeopleWayLooksHas BeensIdeasMovingWrittenPolicyPositionParticularAreasWindowExtremesRealmsComparisonNutsAcceptableModeratesProposal Author:Rachel Maddow
“Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.” WaySeemsArtistCertainCommunityPositionParticularVulnerable Author:Gil Scott-Heron