Quotes About Command

Diversity in counsel, unity in command." –Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the "king of Persia

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

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John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater world.

I am an armor officer.

Offset is a boss.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.

I command my Oath Bound Warrior to execute the red vampyre and then to cast his two fledgling followers into the country, far enough away from any vampyre that their bodies will reject the Change and they, too, shall die!" I

Mr. Carlisle became brisk. Baby, he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign . . .

I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost.

Jack Welch, the architect of GE's turnaround, said it this way: "The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down."6 Welch's aim is not to find better ways to control workers but rather to liberate them.7 Welch's concept of a boundaryless organization is his way to liberate GE workers from the "chains" of command.

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.

the entire operating system of the cosmos could be summed up by a single overriding command: spread energy!

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

Get the hell out of here!

For most of his life, he had been the one in charge, the one giving orders

Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. Sol

And then Kassad was being helped out of his simulation creche at the Olympus Command School and the other cadets and instructors were rising, talking, laughing with one another--all seemingly unaware that the world had changed forever.

Jehovah had not simply been testing Abraham, but had communicated in the only language of loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, and command that humankind could understand at that point in the relationship.