Quotes About Supervision

TV is not a baby sitter.

I really don't like the way most movies and TV shows are supervised - I hate when there's someone singing over dialogue, songs just thrown in there.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.

As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

Una teoria è come una medicina (o un governo): spesso inutile, a volte necessaria, sempre interessata e occasionalmente letale. Per questo dev'essere usata con attenzione, moderazione e sotto la supervisione di un adulto.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation, and close adult supervision.

which requires day-to-day monitoring.

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

Hace tiempo descubrí que, si construyes un arenero alrededor de un niño dominante y permites que ese niño lo presida, los adultos pueden dedicarse al trabajo de verdad.

And so night after night, the Thunderhead silently monitored Greyson in every way it could. Because monitoring was the closest it could come to embracing.

But Sykora was the same as always: bureaucratic and managerial. The undisputed master of petty projects.

After all, a thirteen-year-old shouldn't use a handheld missile launcher without proper instruction.

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do real work.

Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the chin.

Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.