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Tag Name "Command" (805)

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To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
George Henry Lewes
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In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.
Scott Raab
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My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!
Jennifer Aniston
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorothea Brande
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Marco Polo
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As for me and my house, I have no other refuge than this command of Jesus, 'Only believe' that is my refuge.
T. B. Joshua
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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.
Ben Affleck
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My view is that leadership is not about position - you can lead very well with no one reporting to you in a hierarchy and you can lead quite poorly with many people below you in the traditional chain of command. Leadership is about mobilizing people toward valued goals, and anyone can do this, in any aspect of life.
Stewart D. Friedman
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I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
Stonewall Jackson
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Learn to obey before you command.
Solon
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
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You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
Peter Diamandis
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
Thomas Jefferson
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Seneca the Elder
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A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
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A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
Max Lerner
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The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.
Jean-Baptiste Say
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal Richelieu
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Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.
Monica Crowley
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Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.
Paul Tillich
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Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.
Nicole Ari Parker
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It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.
Steve King
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