Quotes About Authority

We do need maybe younger or more experienced judges but where you can get them I don't know. It's like in football, who would want to be a football referee? You'd just get criticism all the time.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

I think I have respect from players, coaches, and certain media who watch the games. I'm not a youngster anymore.

What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

It is not the government's right to tell you what to inject into your body.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.

As a parent, it's your job to discipline your child and make him respect you, because that is essentially protecting them.

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Never mess with other people's kids. You will never win. It's the child's word against yours and they have parental reinforcements as back-up. You just can't triumph.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.