Osoby na stanowiskach kierowniczych muszą wiedzieć, na ile dobre lub złe są warunki pracy ich podwładnych. Muszą jeść w ich stołówkach, by przekonać się, czy posiłki są dobrze przygotowywane, sprawdzać prysznice i toalety. Jeżeli warunki te nie odpowiadają kierownictwu, nie odpowiadają nikomu.
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[Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.] JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Debbie alilia. Alilia kwa nguvu zake zote. Alijua tayari alishampoteza Murphy na yote yale huenda al... ENOCK MAREGESI Schließlich sagte ich leise: "Wie kommt's, dass du so weise bist, Effie?" "Ich habe es siebenu... SAMANTHA YOUNG Ich vermochte kaum den Kopf hochzuhalten. Ich wollte mich befreien, dem Gefängnis meiner Erinnerung... KATE MOSSE Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi ishirini na mbili wanaweza kutawaliwa. Ishirini na mb... ENOCK MAREGESI I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die T... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß... PAULINE DEBOK Usijidanganye. Mungu ahusiki na mwili wako, anahusika na roho yako. Roho inahusika na moyo wako, na ... SIMON MASHALLA Könnte ich es sagen und lehren, so wäre ich ein Weiser. So aber bin ich nur ein Fährmann und mein... HERMANN HESSE Es war so, als würde ich ausatmen, nachdem ich viel zu lange die Luft angehalten hatte. AMY EWING Ich bin einfach sterblich, wie andere Leute erkältet sind. In jeder Sekunde spüre ich die Symptome... JULI ZEH Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich habe immer gedacht, dass ich die seltsamste Person auf dieser Welt bin, aber später dachte ich,... FRIDA KAHLO Ich bin enttäuscht ... Ich Ich hätte möglicherweise drei weitere Staffeln gemacht. Ich hätte wah... DOMINIC KEATING Ich bin enttäuscht ... Ich Ich hätte möglicherweise drei weitere Staffeln gemacht. Ich hätte wah... DOMINIC KEATING Kuna siri ambayo wanaume hawaijui kuhusu wanawake. Wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi is... ENOCK MAREGESI When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafür das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, ... KATE MOSSE Ningependa kujitokeza leo kutoa salamu zangu za rambirambi kwa Watu wa Musoma; kutokana na ajali mba... ENOCK MAREGESI Yusufu alikuwa hohehahe kabla na baada ya kuuzwa na nduguze kama mtumwa nchini Misri. Hakuwa na pesa... ENOCK MAREGESI Kama George Bush angekuwa na amani ndani ya moyo wake na Saddam Hussein angekuwa na amani ndani ya m... ENOCK MAREGESI Auf dem allerersten Foto, das von mir geschossen wurde, liege ich auf der Säuglingsstation, eingewi... RAZIEL REID Sina nyemi na mwanamke mwenye sura nzuri na tabia mbaya. Nina nyemi na mwanamke mwenye sura mbaya na... ENOCK MAREGESI Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein … Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommuniziere... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Muda haututoshi. Tunajua mizigo hiyo ni ya nani. Tunajua nani aliua maafisa wetu wa polisi na maafis... ENOCK MAREGESI Ich habe die komplexen Probleme einer Single-Existenz gegen die Probleme zweier Personen getauscht. ... CATHRIN SUMFLETH Ngumi ya Ambilikile ilitua barabara katika kichwa cha Brookshield na kuleta madhara makubwa. Sehemu ... ENOCK MAREGESI … Das verschlug mir für einen Moment die Sprache, ich hatte nicht gedacht, dass es so schlim... MARTINA RIEMER Maadui ni wazuri kuliko marafiki na mashabiki ni wazuri kuliko maadui. Maadui wanakusaidia kujua wew... ENOCK MAREGESI Das Blau in seinem Blick multiplizierte und intensivierte sich, während er sich weiter zu mir vorle... SIMONA DOBRESCU In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch l�... ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Während ich mir mit Fernsehen und Radio die Illusion von Gesellschaft ins Verlies holte, konnte ich... NATASCHA KAMPUSCH Yet through delivery orators succeed,
I feel that I am far behind indeed.
[Ger., Allein der Vo... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You need to fear me, not hate me." I did. I feared him. But I think I hated him more. No,... NASHODA ROSE Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika ... ENOCK MAREGESI
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LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte... LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m... LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ... LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe... LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love... LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s... LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t... LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea... LORD BURLEIGH Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t... LORD CHESTERFIELD A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart... LORD GREVILLE A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil... LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score... LORD CHESTERFIELD I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man... LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning... LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit... LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ... LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. LORD NELSON I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. LORD NELSON Business is more exciting than any game. LORD BEAVERBROOK The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ... LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e... LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o... LORD CHESTERFIELD All science is either physics or stamp collecting. LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th... LORD CHESTERFIELD I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th... LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer. LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t... LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in. LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de... LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu. LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does... LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer. LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion... LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart. LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe... LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. LORD BYRON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e... LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. LORD CHESTERFIELD He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th... LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. LORD BYRON Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD