Subordinate Position Quotes

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.

People without leverage work for those with leverage.

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that's the way they looked at it, but I never did.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

I've always been in a band where it's been somebody else's band - or pretty much always.

If you think you're going to be a backup, you're going to be a backup.

I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.