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Quotes About Supervision

His mother said that all children were arsonists at heart, and if not for the lighter he'd have used matches.
~ Margaret Atwood
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
~ Linus Torvalds
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
~ Harold Geneen
Help is the sunny side of control.
~ Anne Lamott
THE TALAMASCA We watch And we are always here.
~ Anne Rice
Walking a small child was like herding water, Michael used to think when his own children were small. Heaven only knew what they'd take into their heads to do next - dart in front of a speeding car or throw a tantrum in mid-traffic or stop to pick a soaked cigar butt out of the gutter.
~ Anne Tyler
No, see the slide's too high. He could fall and get a concussion. (Wulf) Forget that. He could rack himself on the teeter-totter. (Chris) Teeter-totter nothing. The swings are a choking hazard. Whose idea was it for him to have this? (Urian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Toby, watch Jaden. I heard he had a bad night and is in the mood for annihilation. End of the world's not on me today, bud. Hey, Takeshi, get your fat butt off me. You're squishing the fox. There is no honor in sacrificing the fox, you ugly hedgehog. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you out of your collective minds? I swear I can't leave you two alone for three seconds that you don't go off and hurt yourselves. I expect stupid out of you, but you know better." – Caleb "I tried to tell him that. He won't listen to me. Tag. You're it." – Nekoda
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
That was the definition of management—getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.
~ John Elder Robison
Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?
~ John Flanagan
I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.
~ John Gould
Success depends on the flair, skills and initiative of people who cannot be effectively supervised.
~ John Kay
A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.
~ Elif Batuman
We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.
~ Trish Stratus
Governance is very important in NBFCs.
~ Ajay Piramal
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sports can't be run by governments.
~ Kapil Sibal
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
~ Jemima Khan
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
~ Steve Brown
I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.
~ David Draiman
The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade. —Psalm 121:5
~ Gary Chapman
You Fathers and you Mothers, let me add, However many children you have had, Yours is the duty of their supervision As long as they are bound by your decision. Beware lest the example you present Or your neglect in giving chastisement Cause them to perish; otherwise I fear, If they should do so, you will pay it dear.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer