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Quotes About Supervision

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
~ Banksy
William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
POS: Parent over shoulder
~ Bart King
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
~ George Cukor
It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.
~ DeAndre Jordan
Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.
~ John Frankenheimer
Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.
~ Julia Hartz
The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.
~ George Orwell
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
~ Jack Vance
Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.
~ Ronald Kessler
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
~ Carl Honore
I have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace.
~ Monica Johnson
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
~ Upton Sinclair
The number of things that can happen to a child online are just as many as can happen to a child in the playground, only it's more immediate and they have the whole world at their finger tips.
~ Dido Harding
Anytime your puppy looks, leans, or lunges at the children, either step between them (block) or move in the opposite direction as you redirect them to another diversionary game or activity (refer to Step 2).
~ Sarah Hodgson
You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
~ Anthony Horowitz
bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.
~ Tom Waits
Always obey your superiors, if you have any.
~ Mark Twain
presence, and leaving experts in charge.
~ Mark Twain
leader in the Times
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Our duties depend on our level of training, but we're never entirely on our own: there's always an attending, who oversees our decisions.
~ Atul Gawande
I was learning. In medicine, we have long faced a conflict between the imperative to give patients the best possible care and the need to provide novices with experience. Residencies attempt to mitigate potential harm through supervision and graduated responsibility. And there is reason to think patients actually
~ Atul Gawande
The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.
~ Stacy Schiff