Quotes About Command

The particular Soviet state form of capitalism was more or less replicated in other "socialist" countries. In them, state officials centrally appropriated the surpluses produced by industrial workers as per the classic definition of capitalist exploitation. Moreover, state administrative (command) allocation replaced markets, and state ownership replaced private ownership of industries' means of production (other than labor power)

Kanalkampfführer' – Channel Battle Leader.

Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.

You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

G. W. Smith had failed Robert E. Lee's test for command in battle, and from that verdict there was no appeal.

Kaylie looks him over. "Are you a sub pilot?" "Head instructor." David feels the blood rush from his face. "You're in charge? I thought I—

The Marines were not even under McChrystal's command at this point; they reported directly to Marine leadership at Central Command in Tampa, Florida. The problem of fractured command identified in the last Bush administration review remained almost a year later.8

the best way to become successful is to master and control things you have control over.

A woman who commands respect is a keeper; a woman who lets men get away with disrespecting her is a throwback.

Pain is a brilliant teacher; it commands you to pay attention to the lesson. And when the quiz includes questions like, "Do I really want to live if it's going to hurt this bad?

After a short discussion, the conclusion is to dust off the old SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT command that we used to use when things went to hell back during thermal vac. SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT should shut things down cold and should prevent any comm windows from opening up until the commanded wake-up time, which won't be until tomorrow morning.

I have often thought that my instincts were the fools that allowed me to survive so that my "higher functions" could continue. Now I am finding that it is more the other way around. It is my ability to reason that keeps command and allows me to survive, and the things I am surviving for are those that I want by instinct: life, companionship, comfort, play.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

The dust dreams of the world it had once been. But the dust, alas, does not command the wind.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts with my fastball, even if the slider is the pitch I want to get to.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.

I don't think there is anyone who hasn't heard about Dawood Ibrahim or seen his pictures. It was very important for me, not to just get the look right, but also to learn the way he smoked, the command he had over people, etc.

thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he'll have one. He turned to the messenger.

General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.