#position

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #leadership #long #long term #obsessed

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#arbiter #authority #conflicting #force #men

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#europe #greece #position #put #will

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#easy #few #half #harder #out

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. ↗

— Bobby Short

#even #opera #position #problematic #tenor

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #imperfect #imperfection #juxtaposition

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#composition #consulting #going #gravity #laws

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?' ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #gosh #i #love #myself

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#been #certain #destructive #i #in the past