I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
“If you want success as a leader in a complex environment read Commanding Excellence and follow it!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations. — Steve Womack Copy Share Image
“You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group. — Gerd von Rundstedt Copy Share Image
“If he were more commanding, he would not be a person people would leave.” — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.” — James Allen Copy Share Image
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was… — John Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more… — Amanda Crew Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
“They’ll like it even less if I hear any words from them,” I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops:… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw… — Johan Santana Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
“Very good, Mr. Howard. They were the ones who didn’t try to second-guess their commanding officer. Can I suggest that in future… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy.… — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In… — Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Copy Share Image
“He killed, his sword shearing, shield and horse a ram, pushing in, and further in, opening a space by force alone for… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Do I get to choose what she commands you to do? Come on, let me, it’ll be fun.” Jai laughed humorlessly. “I… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My Name is Major Benson Winifred Payne. As of 0800, I am replacing Major Frankfurt as your commanding officer. — Damon Wayans Copy Share Image
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despite the whole mess tonight, he had me in his arms and underneath him, his commanding strength taking charge in the way… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
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