Command Quotes
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
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Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen.
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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
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To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
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I just need to regain my command. I was concerned at first that I was not going to be able to go with the team and be healthy.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct is now determined altogether by the constraining force of the end. Logically, therefore, he is bound to require at every moment from his companions whatever will best serve that end, and he demands of them imperiously whatever he thinks is of that nature. This imperiousness, though to immediate view that of the master, springs ultimately from the project itself, for it is the project which is in command. In the eyes of those under him, however, it is the master who hustles them, and they think him inhuman by reason of his disregard of their moods and personalities and his inability to see them other than as servants of the project (like himself).
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.
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Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
