Quotes About Command

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

The root of empowerment is power.

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

In other words, I like control. Not just being in control, but the awareness of control, the feel of control, and the ability to manipulate control itself.

Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment

This vision fundamentally challenges what Peter holds to be the command of God and opens up a difficult dilemma: in order to obey the command of God he must disobey the command of God.

Scripture's commands to "rejoice in the Lord always" (Philippians 4:4)

At home we can say to our ladies: 'I love you', or to our native earth. It means we rejoice in their lives....Love must be free, or else it alters away. Command it to your court: it will send a deputy.

As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them commands.

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

An imperfect decision made in time was better than a perfect decision made too late. Ref. German mission command.

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

In a world without meaningful authority, all "acts" are coercive.

Lucas adds: Even so, there is something that has always struck me in the photos . . . my father often looks sad. I guess he didn't like having to smile on command.

Deduct the carrots from your pay, you worthless, swampy fool. from Cavern

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.'

To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.