position quotes

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As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Robert Greene

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Dylan Thomas

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Katharine Hepburn
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