Supervising Quotes

#1. One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

Jodi Kantor

#2. I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.

Ronnie Wood

#3. In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

Hilda Solis

#4. The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

#5. Creativity ... involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

Oliver Sacks

#6. Being self-conscious. Treating one's self as an other. Supervising oneself.

Susan Sontag

#7. He had little time for formal lecturing or even for supervising Ph.D students at the California Institute of Technology where he worked.

Anonymous

#8. The rates of venereal disease soared and the 82nd Airborne opened a medically certified brothel in Trapani under a supervising officer soon known as the Madam;

Rick Atkinson

#9. I want to have the whole English experience. High tea, supervising manifestations, taking the waters, going to Harrods, discussing possible international conspiracies.

Daniel O'Malley

#10. However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

Aaron Klug

#11. Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.

Piper Kerman

#12. Blonde Queenie, the most beautiful girl ever to don witches' robes, is standing in a silk slip, supervising the mending of a dress on a dressmaker's dummy. Jacob is thunderstruck.

J.K. Rowling

#13. The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Jim Butcher

#14. Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.

Hermann Hesse

#15. Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

J.K. Rowling

#16. You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

Marc Newson

#17. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

Charlie Munger

#18. We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#19. You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

R.D. Laing