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Quotes About Supervision

And then there's The Enforcers—but they cost a lot and don't take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME.
~ Neal Stephenson
And then there's The Enforcers—but they cost a lot and don't take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME.
~ Neal Stephenson
One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol.
~ Chris Prentiss
Let's face it: America is full of borderline, petty despots. They gravitate toward work as police officers, security gaurds, & supervisory bureaucrats like firemen, welfare case workers, and school principles.
~ Christian Parenti
These reconnoissances were made under the supervision of Captain Robert E. Lee, assisted by Lieutenants P. G. T. Beauregard, Isaac I. Stevens, Z. B. Tower, G. W. Smith, George B. McClellan, and J. G. Foster, of the corps of engineers, all officers who attained rank and fame, on one side or the other, in the great conflict for the preservation of the unity of the nation.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
There is everywhere the life of the people, everywhere liberty, everywhere a free atmosphere, everywhere popular supervision, everywhere responsibility. Some people speak of bosses. There were no bosses at all in the Socialist party. Supervision was exercised or can be exercised over those so-called bosses. It used to depend--and it still depends--on the members to invoke the relevant statutory regulations. A strong supervisory control is organized by them and depends only on their initiative.
~ Leon Blum
It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.
~ Germaine Greer
Como diz Fausto: «Quem comanda deve encontrar a sua felicidade no comando.»
~ Giuliano da Empoli
No, no, I'm the big sister fairy. I have to keep you in order.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
There's a saying in Argentina, "When the CEO is looking, the cow grows fatter." A business builds fastest when the CEO is looking at it, because
~ James Altucher
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
~ George Will
Technology is, in many respects, an enabler for an open, transparent society. But it's also an enabler for supervision to a completely unforeseen degree. And for commercialising personal space to an unforeseen degree.
~ Margrethe Vestager
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
~ Johnny Knoxville
The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system.
~ Jerome Powell
A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.
~ Hyman Rickover
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
~ Hugh Gaitskell
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
~ Thomas Carlyle
If a man supervises but fails to nurture, it's possible that he's either a tyrant or an absentee landlord. Neither is fitting for a father, much less an elder.
~ Thabiti M. Anyabwile
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
~ Laura Prepon
In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.
~ Trent Reznor