Authority Quote by Gene Hackman Download Open image “I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.” — Gene Hackman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Marine Trouble
One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions. — Todd Young Copy Share Image
As someone who has been a Marine, how do you change things? You step up to the plate. And you are the one who… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations. — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994) — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image