Quotes About Supervision

I stood there and watched thirty-five children disappear in almost as many different directions and was suddenly horrified by what I'd done. What if someone got lost or hurt? Suppose they didn't come back on time? What would I do then?

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Power should be a check on power.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Power always works from the corner office.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

La conciencia es un fenómeno en medio de un océano de fenómenos que escapan a su control, de manera que no creo que podamos ejercer una completa supervisión de todo lo que pasa por nuestra mente.

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It is the perfect job for this busybody, who loves nothing more than bossing folk around.

No matter where you go, management is always a bunch of cheap bastards.

Leadership is influence

gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised

unspecified exhortation, when translated into practice, is always liable to a certain amount of executive misdirection

And while I definitely agree with that, I also think the same can be said of how people handle power.

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Any time you have to tell work where you're at and what you're doing, that's considered an employee, not a contractor.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

Children crave direction.