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Quotes About Supervision

The Warden owns the shade.-Chapter 1.5
~ Louis Sachar
Professional Organization Of Playground Supervisors
~ Louis Sachar
the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted
~ Louisa May Alcott
He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.
~ Ron Chernow
Whereas most other tycoons hired subordinates to oversee personal expenditures, Rockefeller supervised every detail
~ Ron Chernow
Congress could, at any time, limit how the foundation money was spent.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller never offered blame or praise and revealed his opinion of employees only by adding or subtracting to their duties.
~ Ron Chernow
He also wanted Gates to make on-site inspections of schools and not rely on secondhand reports.
~ Ron Chernow
answer him. He and the sergeant went to the head
~ Ruth Rendell
In his thirteenth year he was old enough to play on the rocks at Scandal Point without having to be watched over by his ayah, Kasturba.
~ Salman Rushdie
EÈ™ti dement omule. Ai dat o arm? înc?rcat? unor copii. - ÎncetaÈ›i s?-i mai trataÈ›i ca pe niÈ™te copii È™i vor înceta s? se mai comporte ca niÈ™te copii. Cine dracu' sunteÈ›i voi s-o faceÈ›i pe supraveghetorii?... ExplicaÈ›i-le cum funcÈ›ioneaz? arma înc?rcat?... L?saÈ›i-i s? creasc?. Este momentul.
~ Alfred Bester
Two young people—one mad and one sexually insatiable—both naked—are roaming this house. At all costs we must prevent a collision.
~ Joe Orton
In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
~ Joe Shuster
The founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, possessed a remarkably cosmopolitan vision. Rather than annihilate or enslave his opponents, Cyrus envisioned a multinational empire where foreign cultures were to be respected and preserved, albeit under Persian supervision. This
~ Joel Kotkin
On Lenore's street when she was a kid, everyone played softball and policed the rules themselves. Today, they go to organized activities where the adults intervene all the time to tell them what the rules are. Free play has been turned into supervised play, and so—like processed food—it has been drained of most of its value.
~ Johann Hari
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.
~ Edward Abbey
Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
~ Anonymous
And on the eighth day God said, "Okay, Murphy, you're in charge!"
~ Anonymous
Mother, may I go out to swim?Yes, my darling daughter:Hang your clothes on a hickory limbAnd don't go near the water.
~ Anonymous
I don't play the field - I rule the sidelines.
~ Anonymous
If artificial intelligence and engineering can take us there, why not? Provided the engineered creatures are under human supervision, provided they have no way of acquiring autonomy and turning against us, and provided we will not have the means to program robots such that they can destroy the world, why not? It must be added that there are several dark scenarios regarding not so much future robots as future AI programs that do have doomsday potential and that need to be watched for.
~ António R. Damásio
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann's lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, "Make them all.
~ Anthony Doerr