Command Quotes - Page 22

• What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

  George Friedman

  Sea, Firsts, Foundation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.

  Kevin Allen

  Running, Order, Top Down

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Self, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Military, Winning, Men

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Party, Rejection

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Stress, Inspiration, Errors

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Expression, Intuition, Way

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• 'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

  Roger Williams

  Men, Hands, Mercy

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command and recruit the best and brightest Americans.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Offensive, Cyber

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Directors, Males

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Potentially, the U.S. military has the ability to stop messages from being delivered or can alter commands without ISIS knowing.

  Dina Temple-Raston

  Military, Isis, Knowing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Looks, Intimidating, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Sweet

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• When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Cfs, Forgiving

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.250, Paulist Press

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• A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, People

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• Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Wrestling, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

  Sheldon Richman

  Pain, Organization, Political

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• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Thorough Knowledge, Shy

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.309, Shambhala Publications

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• Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

  Epictetus

  Fall, Self, Worry

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• Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

  Jerry Bridges

  Exercise, Law, Motive

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.55, Tyndale House

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• I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world. . . . I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Humanity, Important, Needs

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• His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

  John Milton

  Nimble, Airy

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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• When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Generosity, Goal, Judging

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• God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

  Mark Batterson

  Wish, Bottles, Genies

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Oct 30, 2012

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