Position Quotes - Page 6

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

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

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.