Instructors Quote by R. Lee Ermey

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

— R. Lee Ermey

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at…

— Jim Butcher

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

— Peter Jacobson

The enemy of intimidation attacks our soul. It is not defeated through psychology or positive thinking. Our weapon against intimidation is the sword of…

— John Bevere

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

— Franz Kafka

...but Dimitri...well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was…

— Richelle Mead

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness…

— George W. Bush

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in…

— Stonewall Jackson

“Don't allow control freaks and manipulators to dominate your actions.”

— Steven Redhead

Few great men would have got past personnel.

— Paul Goodman

“On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

— Pliny the Elder