Quotes About Authority

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

My father gave me discipline.

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.

The president actually is there to complement the government in power. If they have done something that is not proper, it is the duty of the president to... discuss and to come to some common ground.

I had a few passionate discussions with my own coaches, but it wasn't for more playing time or anything like that. It was because, even then, I wanted to run the team my own way.

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.