"I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter……" — James Stockdale
"I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders."
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29 Quotes by James Stockdale
James Stockdale has 29 quotes on this site.
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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
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I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got…
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my…
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since…
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Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It…
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of…
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Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into…
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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might…
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More Commanding Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
— Sun Tzu
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
— Mark Helprin
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
— Blaise Pascal
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
— Lysander Spooner
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
— John Herschel
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The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master…
— John A. Lejeune
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Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
— A. A. Gill
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