Top 1200 Command And Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to be in control of giving you an experience, and want you to be acknowledged as an audience and can do things but only in a limited scope.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.

You can't control chemistry. You can't control, you know, just similar aesthetics creatively. And, you know, David and I didn't know each other prior to this. And we get along famously. So it's - I feel very lucky.

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

I do not speak Malayalam and am putting strenuous effort in developing command over the language.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers control of factories, community control of communities, and so on. That was socialism once. But it hasn't meant that for a hundred years. Socialism meant something different.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

I write about one of my bills that says pharmacists cannot be doctors. They cannot determine what they will or will not sell, and you find that many pharmacists will not sell birth control. The movement has gone not just against the access of reproductive rights to abortion; the movement has gone to birth control. They're going after birth control.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don't know, because the truth is, under President [Barack] Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

BJP is a no-nonsense party and once the high command gives directions, it is followed through.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will seek to divert resources from public coffers to fundamentalist school funding. From the madrassa schools of Pakistan to the Christian push for school vouchers in the United States and the religious home school movement, religions seek to control education or to control the resources for education.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.

To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.