Quotes About Command

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

Tigers breed tigers. A candy-assed commander will have few tigers working for him. Each makes the other uncomfortable.

ordered him to execute this mission. If death was

If I could see and really understand the essence of the life that is right around me I could with even such technique as I now command make masterpieces.

You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. – Leviticus 19:2

As the citizens of the former Soviet Union are discovering to their consternation, a market system means the end of the long lines for bread that were a curse of life in a society of centralized command, but it also means the introduction of a line that did not exist formerly—namely, standing in line at employment offices, looking for work.

As long as custom and command ruled the world, the problem of riches and poverty hardly struck the earlier philosophers at all, other than to be accepted with a sigh or railed at as another sign of man's inner worthlessness.

Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! —Lord Byron, Don Juan

Let there be light! said God, and there was light! Let there be blood! says man, and there's a sea!

You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

Consider your duty done," said Mannerheim, looking back into his expanding incision. Philips

I will do anything it is in my power to do for you, he said. Command me. A vampire, standing on the far side of my bed, wearing my kimono, telling me he'd do anything I asked. Steady, Sunshine.

The fate of Sir John French, who had failed in the previous September at Loos - but had not lost anything like so many men in the process - cannot have passed unnoticed by General Haig in the autumn of 1916.

Alexander the Great would have found it difficult to succeed in forcing a breach in the German line in 1914-1915, and the defeats Haig's armies suffered in 1916 and 1917 - those notorious disasters on the Somme and at Passchendaele - should not obscure the fact that it was Haig who commanded the British armies that spearheaded the Allied victory in 1918 and showed the other armies how this war should be fought; even General Foch admitted that.

Words are the verbal embodiment of power.

In the snows Amundsen grasped that it was usually best to lead from behind. He could see his men and survey the situation, the foundation of command. And the last man has the responsibility of retrieving what falls off the sledges. However careful the stowing, somehow something vital usually drops by the wayside.

John Adams summed up the case succinctly: "In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.

While extremely powerful, they were also inhibited in exercising that power.

For Hamilton, his encounters with the two obdurate generals strengthened his preference for strict hierarchy and centralized command as the only way to accomplish things—a view that was to find its political equivalent in his preference for concentrated federal power instead of authority dispersed among the states.