Quotes About Command

Chamberlain

armies von Arnim

Condoleezza Rice is right: people will join your side if you have power and are willing to use it, not just because they are afraid of your hurting them but also because they want to be close to your power and success.

They could not make out the exact words coming from their captain's mouth, but it was fairly clear he wasn't reciting poetry.

The extension of the empathic bond is the social glue to establishing a global network of millions of human beings. It's probably not surprising that in the most technologically advanced countries, where self-expression is high, the older theological consciousness, with its emphasis on strict external codes, the communal bond, and a hierarchically organized command and control, is losing its hold. Religious hierarchies make less and less sense in a fl at, networked world.

Throw the lumber over, man!

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.

I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO.

He who has no bread has no authority

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I'm the Princess BellaDonna, baby. The head bee-yotch in charge. And from now on, you will do Whatever. I. Say.

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Don't touch the red button!

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Ei tarvittu kuria, ei isänmaata, ei kunniaa eikä velvollisuudentuntoa. Noita kaikkia mahtavampi käskijä ruoski heitä eteenpäin. Kuolema.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

Happy Birthday!' I yelled, 'Now, shut up!