Quotes About Authority

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

All clients think that they are architects.

When you're a manager it's different from being a coach.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

There are many coaches who talk about referees every day.

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

I think coaches sometimes think it's always their way.

When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to.

Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

I have led men in combat.