Quotes About Command

When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixes duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

L'excès de récompenses et de punitions montre que le commandement est au bout de ses ressources, et dans une grande détresse.

El primero de estos factores es la doctrina; el segundo, el tiempo; el tercero, el terreno; el cuarto, el mando; y el quinto, la disciplina.

When troops flee, are insubordinate, distressed, collapse in disorder or are routed, it is the fault of the general. None of these disasters can be attributed to natural causes.

When senior officers are angry and insubordinate, and on encountering the enemy rush into battle with no understanding of the feasibility of engaging and without awaiting orders from the commander, the army is in a state of collapse.

Jsou pÃ…â"¢íkazy vládce, které nepÃ…â"¢ijmeÅ¡.

The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.

The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness.

One ignorant of the plans of neighboring states cannot prepare alliances in good time; if ignorant of the conditions of mountains, forests, dangerous defiles, swamps and marshes he cannot conduct the march of an army; if he fails to make use of native guides he cannot gain the advantages of the ground. A general ignorant of even one of these three matters is unfit to command the armies of a Hegemonic King.

The Moral Law, Heaven, Earth, The Commander, Method, and Discipline. These Five Heads should be familiar to every general. He who knows them, will be victorious. He who knows them not, will fail.

To command many is equal as to command few; it's the question of divide.

1. Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers. 2. Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

a skilful general given free rein by the ruler, brings victory.

re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.

To Strange's unnautical eye, it looked very much as if the ship had simply lain down and gone to sleep. He felt that if he had been the Captain he would have spoken to her sternly and made her get up again.

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Wheres the damn food at

Papie?? A ile on ma dywizji? (????! ? ? ???? ??????? ????????)

Abraham's readiness to obey God's command shows him to be ethically deficient by later standards, but not by those of his age. True, God had revealed Himself to Abraham, but He had not made known to him the full ethical implications of monotheism. Since other contemporary religious believers sacrificed sons to their gods, God, in essence, was asking Abraham if he was as devoted to his God as the pagan idolaters were to theirs.

During his years in Los Angeles, Viktor Chernenko had learned that one similarity between life in the old USSR and life in Los Angeles—life under a command economy and a market economy—was that a tremendous amount of business was transacted by people in subcultures, people whom no one ever sees except the police.

Frame control creates power and power attracts.

But casual dress or no, he looked like the guy in charge. Of everything. Everywhere.

Principal's no different from the rest—he orders and so he is.

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.