Open Position

When one door shuts, a hundred open. - Spanish Proverb

Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world. - Unknown

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position. - Pierre Trudeau

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. - Unknown

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push. - Rodney Dangerfield

The family you came from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. - Ring Lardner

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane

I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban

The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. - Alan Watts

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest and let the spirits fly in and out. - Rumi

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't of had anything to play with. - Rodney Dangerfield

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. - Evangeline Lilly

Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others. - Peter Forbes

You can spend your precious energy beating down closed doors, or you can choose the doors that open when you knock. - Unknown

Men have trouble dealing with a woman in a position of authority. I've never had trouble with a woman in any position. - Sam Malone

You reached into my soul and rearranged the position of my bones,
You rebuilt my rib cage so your heart could be home. - Unknown

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open. - Lillian Smith

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open. - Harvey Mackay

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. - Jean de La Bruyere

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life. - Stephen Covey

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open. - Mark Zuckerberg

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo

To build a strong team, you must see someone else's strength as a complement to your weakness, and not a threat to your position or authority. - Christine Caine

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros