"Who has not served cannot command."

-- John Florio

#Command Quotes

“It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.”
“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.”
“If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.”
“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.”

Source : Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]”
“Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.”
“But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.”

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