Assume The Position Quotes

#1. There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.

Hillary Clinton

#2. We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

Dean Radin

#3. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

William S. Burroughs

#4. My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

Edward Abbey

#5. In the unique case of a country's geographic position, it is difficult to consider this factor as anything other than a cause, unless we assume that in prehistoric times peoples migrated to climates that fit their concepts of power distance, which is rather far-fetched.

Geert Hofstede

#6. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Gautama Buddha

#7. A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

Mencius

#8. Sweetheart, if it's not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#9. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

Stephen Fry

#10. In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

John Maus

#11. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

Eric Nicol

#12. Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic ... -Ruby

Nina Malkin

#13. You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

Tom Rath

#14. Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.

James Howard Kunstler

#15. If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

Dave Barry

#16. Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

Jim Holt

#18. He had no ability to give up. It wasn't that he didn't want to quit, he couldn't. It wasn't in him. It never had been.

Dan Groat

#19. If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Ouida

#20. The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

George Soros

#21. This is the first time in I don't know how long that I've come even close to caring what happens next. I guess you could call that hope.

Amy Reed

#22. Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Richard J. Foster

#23. Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.

John Ortberg

#24. When people in organizations focus only on their position, they have little sense of responsibility for the results produced when all positions interact. Moreover, when results are disappointing, it can be very difficult to know why. All you can do is assume that someone screwed up.

Peter M. Senge

#25. Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Gertrude Stein

#26. I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Frantz Fanon