Dictating Quotes

• No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Confidence, Creativity, Men

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• The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

  Ronald Reagan

  Lying, Doctors, Government

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Society

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• There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Media, Play, People

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• Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.986, Penguin

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• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

  Laozi

  Peace, Struggle, Successful

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Choices

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.157, Penguin

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• I don't want China dictating to me.

  Donald Trump

  Want, China

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Order, Telephones

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• I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

  Basil Bunting

  Father, Hate, Spring

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Islamic, Justice, Car

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.

  Benjamin

  Doctors, Medicine, People

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• We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

  Colin Powell

  Mutual Interest, Arabia, Looks

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Cards, Stories, Credit

  "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

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• As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

  Bill Ford

  Long, Water, Gas

  "The Motown missionary" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2000.

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• The key is dictating what the fans do rather than letting them dictate what you do.

  Randy Orton

  Keys, Fans

  Source: www.espn.com

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• The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

  Chris Avellone

  Player, Path, Stories

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

  Joe Klein

  Dictator, Delusional, Diplomacy

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• Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Agreement, Challenges

  Barack Obama's comments during the press conference at the G20 summit in London, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Writing, Wings

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.7

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• I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Government, Issues, Community

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• Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Ordinary, Speech

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Differences, Feelings, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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