Supervision, Supervisors Quotes

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

In England, your manager is like a boss.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

When huge factories were established there could no longer be a close tie between the master and his men; the workman hated his employer, and the employer looked on his workmen simply as hands.

I expect you to be a leader, to supervise by example, to lead, not simply order others to do hard jobs. I will hold you personally responsible for the operations under you. If one of your men makes an error, you as well as he will be accountable.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

What would you have me do? I have two masters who always have an eye fixed on me. They are my neighbors and France is far away.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.

The majority in every society is always the backward. The diligent are no more than thirty percent of the society. It is a natural law that the diligent breed will exploit the backward breed as best they can, like the fish at sea, where the strong eat the weak. It is inconsequential whether the diligent are capitalists and merchants, as in the bourgeois government, or whether the diligent are the managers and supervisors, the intellectuals and the allotters as in the communist government. Ultimately, the diligent will exploit the laboring backward to the best of their ability.

The fast food industry is rife with sexual harassment. These kids need the job and the supervisors--almost all male--take advantage of them.

I have worked with different managers in the past and different systems.

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Creating a flexible working culture is about trust. How much can your employees rely on each other to get the job done without the benefit of supervision?

We are considered to be a watchdog, the IEA, and a watchdog fulfils its task only if it barks. So I bark when I think there is a need for barking.

You always learn from both good and bad bosses.

We decided … to put an end to illiteracy, and each of the factory representatives made lists of all illiterates at his own factory, found premises for schools, brought pressure to bear on the factory management and raised funds. A superintendent from amongst the workers was appointed to each school for illiterates, and he saw to it that everything necessary was provided - blackboards, chalk, ABC books; others were appointed to ensure that instruction was given correctly and to hear what the workers had to say about the schools. We gave instructions to the superintendents and heard their reports.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.