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Quotes About Commission

One such middleman is a South African security researcher based in Thailand who is known in the security community by his hacker handle "The Grugq." The Grugq brokers exploit sales between his hacker friends and government contacts, pocketing a 15 percent commission per transaction. He only launched his business in 2011, but by 2012 sales were so good, he told a reporter he expected to make $1 million in commissions.
~ Kim Zetter
Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title
~ George Washington
Two days after he had appointed the special oversight commission, sixty-one-year-old Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, an APSA senior accountant, was arrested. Prosecutors charged he was the mastermind in helping friends avoid taxes on $26.2 million, some of it cash flown to Italy on a private jet from Switzerland.
~ Gerald Posner
In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.
~ Theodore Tronchin
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
~ Robert Burns
I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.
~ J.P. Moreland
The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.
~ Gerard Debreu
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
~ Kenneth Frazier
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
~ Alejo Carpentier
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
~ David Livingstone
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
~ Hudson Taylor
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
If he could get a commission to work on the murals in one of the Ringstrasse buildings, he would be in a much better position." "He'll never allow us to arrange such a thing, and I respect him immeasurably for it.
~ Tasha Alexander
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
~ Mark Kirk
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?
~ David Cameron
I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
~ Nathan Sawaya
without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.
~ Niall Ferguson
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
~ Roland Allen
It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission – God's mission. Chris Wright
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
Mission arises from the heart of God himself, and is communicated from his heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
In an important departure from tradition, the commission singled out Turkish massacres and deportations of Armenian civilians as being so grotesque that—although they had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva conventions—these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a "crime against humanity
~ Christopher Simpson
The President said: "General Grant, the nation's appreciation of what you have done, and its reliance upon you for what remains to be done in the existing great struggle, are now presented, with this commission constituting you lieutenant-general in the Army of the United States. With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so
~ Ulysses S. Grant
the International Commission on Large Dams put the global potential of economically feasible projects at just over 8 PWh, roughly twice the current rate of annual generation.
~ Vaclav Smil
Almost all stock brokers make their trading platform dysfunctional during the end of intraday session to get commission from sebi
~ Laksheish M Patel