Command Quotes - Page 17

• Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

  Jim Elliot

  Moving, Wind, Sound

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• The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

  Peter King

  Loyalty, Strategy, Importance

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• But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Running, Exercise, Hands

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Powerful, Focus, Bully

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing is useful, but they want also, and mainly, to feel that it is right. Freedom is one of these principles

  Henry Wallich

  Strong, Men, Principles

  Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”

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• Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

  George Washington

  Support, Want, Easy

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.81

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• A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Struggle, Justice, Humanity

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.88, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

  Robert Hughes

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

  Camille Paglia

  Successful, Clients, Environment

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• No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .

  C. Wright Mills

  Powerful, Mean, Firsts

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

  Adam Baldwin

  Firefly, Realizing, Beats

  "Fictional character: Jayne". "The Train Job", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

  Walter Wriston

  Men, Color, Attention

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• The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Healthy, Mind

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• I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Lord, Made

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• A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

  Vimala McClure

  Wise, Mother, Matter

  Vimala McClure (2011). “The Tao of Motherhood”, p.47, New World Library

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• It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

  John Calvin

  Rain, Fall, Certain

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• I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.

  Mr. Lee

  Reality, Long, People

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• The original AMD GCN architecture allowed for one source of graphics commands, and two sources of compute commands. For PS4, we've worked with AMD to increase the limit to 64 sources of compute commands - the idea is if you have some asynchronous compute you want to perform, you put commands in one of these 64 queues, and then there are multiple levels of arbitration in the hardware to determine what runs, how it runs, and when it runs, alongside the graphics that's in the system.

  Mark Cerny

  Running, Ideas, Two

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• It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
  never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
  commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

  Brad Templeton

  Command Not, Law, People

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• In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Healing, Vegetables, Medicine

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• The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Giving Up, Real

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mistake, Fall

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• That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

  Dave Galanter

  Trust, Needs, Levels

  Dave Galanter (2009). “Star Trek: The Original Series: Troublesome Minds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).

  Michael Hersch

  Strong, Giving, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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