Command Quotes
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It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
Dorothy Parker
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Discipline Quotes :: Leadership QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of...
James Allen
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of...
James Allen
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
Subject: Business QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image
Nelson Mandela
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I think that what a lot of first-time filmmakers don`t realize is that they are the least experienced person on that set. Everybody else has been doing their job for years, so the whole act of playing the filmmaker, playing the person in command, is a cha...
Sarah Polley
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Spencer Tracy was the first actor I`ve seen who could just look down into the dirt and command a scene. He played a set-up with Robert Ryan that way. He`s looking down at the road and then he looks at Ryan at just the precise, right minute. I tell you, Ro...
Ernest Borgnine
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[on his being made a CBE] Being a Commander of the British Empire isn`t really what it`s cracked up to be, since I can`t command anybody. Everyone always ignores me.
Sting
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[on D. W. Griffith] It`s true, sometimes I called him David. Even so, I might have said David, but I always thought Mr. Griffith. He was a born general. His voice was a voice of command. It was resonant, deep and full.
Lillian Gish
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I loved Altman. Even though we only made MASH and Brewster McCloud he offered me McCabe and Mrs. Miller and I had to turn it down to do Harold and Maude. But I never got over working under his supreme command and imagination. I adored Hal Ashby - he let m...
Bud Cort
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But ... in my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It`s somehow very difficult for people.
Meryl Streep
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If they`d handed over the command over [Stargate] SG-1 to Amanda [Tapping] and me, we`d definitely soon have a pure comedy show, no, I don`t think we`d manage to get anything serious going because we`d be joking non-stop!
Teryl Rothery
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[on George Peppard] He`s arrogant -- the sort of man who expects women to fall at his feet at the slightest command; who throws his weight around. He gives the impression that he`s the star, what he says goes and that nobody else is very important.
Joan Collins
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You can`t play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will.
Brian Lara
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You can`t play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will.
Brian Lara
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You can`t command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
Bob Nelson
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You can`t command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
Bob Nelson
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Amjad Jamal
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Who has not served cannot command.
Alison Cheney
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
Allan Kline
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When placed in command - take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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When people have asked if I`d like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don`t get to fly it, except for landing, which I`d love to do. I wouldn`t go unless I could command it.
Wally Schirra
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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Alexander Silbiger
