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timing Hurry-up
when you have got time, then
you will have time, when in a hurry. ------------------- Running
fast does not help. Starting
on time does. ------------------- The
sooner we are behind schedule, the
more time we have to catch up. Aart
de Gans ------------------- In
the west they have watches, here
we have the time. African saying ------------------- Hofstadter’s
law: Things
always take longer than you think, even
if you count with Hofstadter’s law. Douglas
Hofstadter ------------------- If
you come on time, people
will think you have nothing to do.
Nasty questions Can
you mention something you
have never heard of? ------------------- Ask
no stupid questions and you get no stupid answers. objectives If
you don’t know where you are going, any
road will bring you there. ------------------- Obstacles
are those awful things, you
see when you take your eyes from your goal. ------------------- Who have a why can bear almost any how ------------------- On
character you get not far in the dessert. On
a camel, you will. Tom Brouwer ------------------- After too many business plans: It
should be correct, it
does not need to be true. Frans
de Leeuw ------------------- At
times inactivity is preferable to
mindless functioning. ------------------- Bad intentions can yield good results. meetings When
I admit you are right, it
will be the end of our discussion. ------------------- Knowledge ends every animated discussion. ------------------- Don’t
argue with our good Lord and with self-conceited people. ------------------- I
don’t talk too fast, you
listen too slow. ------------------- Know
what you say, don’t say what you know ------------------- In
the management team they
seem to be silent now and then all
at the same time…… But
of course we don’t hear that on
the shop floor. Shareholdervalue Down
Jones ------------------- We,
the uninformed working
for the inaccessible are
doing the impossible for
the ungrateful ------------------- They
leave you for a dollar dividend. Happy
Brens ------------------- There
is a fine line between information
and propaganda. ------------------- Wishing
things away is not effective. ------------------- The art of navigation When
the sea is calm, all
vessels show mastership in floating Shakespeare ------------------- If
you want to hit a target, shoot
first, And
whatever you hit, call it the target ------------------- Is
that policy, or
did somebody think it over? ------------------- If
you think you have everything under control, you
don’t drive fast enough. Alain Prost, formula 1 racer ------------------- The
guideline to carry out a rain-dance is
hardly practised anymore. ------------------- The
“mean time between decisions” should
be shorter than the
“mean time between surprises” ------------------- Logic
brings you from A to B. Imagination
brings you everywhere. Albert
Einstein Man and woman When
God created Adam, She
thought: "I can do better" ------------------- God
created Eve as help for Adam. Which
makes clear who needed help. ------------------- Romantic
love was invented to manipulate women. ------------------- Celibacy
is not transmissible Happy
Brens ------------------- Stupid people shouldn’t breed. ------------------- Real
friends
you
will never see They are standing behind you Ria
van de Voet ------------------- Behind every successful man stands a flabbergasted mother in law ------------------- People are boring unless they are extremists. ------------------- You
are a victim of the rules you live by. ------------------- reorganising A
chill will last three weeks if you don’t call help from a doctor. With
the doctor it takes only twenty-one days. ------------------- A
leap forward cannot
be made with both feet on the ground. ------------------- The element Bureaucratium: Inert; as there are no electrons, it reacts with nothing Easy to find, because all reactions in the neighbourhood will be
stagnating In minuscule quantities all reactions that normally take seconds, now
last for days The lifecycle of Bureaucratium
is app. 3 years Than it does not fall apart, but it reorganises : assistant
neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice -neutrons change positions After every cycle the atomically mass increases Research
Laboratory Journal ------------------- When
it is good, leave
it as it is. ------------------- If
everybody would get at the top, it
would be lonely in the valley Alexander
Pola ------------------- There
is enough for everyone, but
not for everyone’s greediness. Mahatma
Gandhi Problem solving Leave
troubled water alone, and
it will become clear again. Lao
Tzé ------------------- No
matter how nice you repair the tire, you
must take the nail out first. Klazien ------------------- When
it cannot be done as it should, it
should be done as it can. Wim
Leeflang ------------------- Before
you swim across the river, better
check if there is a bridge. R.F.
Ferdinand ------------------- Categorising
fear is calming. ------------------- Religion
causes more problems as it solves. Works ahead After
your tongue has done its work, let
your hands do ------------------- Of
some people you can hardly believe that
they where the fastest of millions of semen. ------------------- You
have to earn a new pair of trousers in your old one. ------------------- Who
never dares to set the first step, will
stand on one foot his whole life. Arjan
Kroes ------------------- Make
a donkey of yourself and
people will ride on your back. Zus Brens-Vriens ------------------- You
would miss a lot of sleep, if
you could not go to the office every day. ------------------- There
are people who think and there
are people who act. The
worst are the thinkers, they
think they act. ------------------- If
work is good for men, rich
people would not let poor people do it. Saying from Haiti ------------------- The fundamentals for success Are
not: *
systems & structures The
basics are: *
communication
& charisma *
credibility
& confidence *
drive
& devotion *
empowerment
& empathy *
integrity
& intimacy *
leadership
& loyalty *
phantasy
& philosophy So
it is all about PEOPLE If
you have all that, *
systems
& structures will help Happy Brens ------------------- There
are two kinds of people: those
who do the work and
those who take the credits. Try
to be in the first group because there is less competition Indira
Ghandi ------------------- There
are two kinds of people: Thoese
who divide people in two groups and
those who don’t. I,
myself am one of the second group. ------------------- Things
you like, you
do with pleasure. Cees
Steenbrink ------------------- The
wildest fantasies of the one become
hard facts for the other, provided
they are properly typed. Wiel
Smits ------------------- You
will be wiser after work than before. ------------------- With
IT-ers everything will be automatic, but
nothing works on its own. ------------------- Microsoft
logic: Press
“start” if you want to stop ------------------- Dead
fish swim downstream. M.Muggeridge About management Last
year we were at the edge of the abyss. Now
we have made a big step forward. ------------------- A
manager is always there if he needs you. ------------------- Teamwork: Organisation
principle, where four man do the work of one. ------------------- The
big leaders of the world seems to be so big, because
we are on our knees for them. V.Pfeiffer ------------------- When
entrepreneurs and managers understand each other, there
is something terribly wrong. R.de
Jonge ------------------- Pay
peanuts, and
you will get monkeys D.J.Schwartz ------------------- He
is at his best in co-operation doing it at his own. ------------------- You
want the troops to walk at marching speed? Hit
the drum, not the troops. ------------------- Any
issue has two sides: His
side and the wrong one. ------------------- At a mistake: “You
have a flat learning curve” ------------------- Simple
farmers grow the biggest potatoes. ------------------- If
you pump-up your ego, beware for needles. style It
is nice to be important but
it is more important to be nice ------------------- The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin ------------------- Who
wants to be the wisest, admits. ------------------- Anyone
can be polite to a king, A
gentleman is also polite to a beggar. wise lessons Happiness
you find, is
different from happiness you were looking for. ------------------- Happiness
is not a place, but a road. Happy
Brens ------------------- Being Happy is more important than anything else. ------------------- It
is not easy to see the difference Between
a chance and a temptation. ------------------- Nothing
is distributed so honestly as common sense. Everyone
thinks he has got enough of it. ------------------- In democracy an absurdity lurks, that is that in the end the truth is quantitatively defined . ------------------- For
the retreat of your enemy build
a golden bridge. Sun
Tzu ------------------- Nothing clears the mind so wonderfully as the absence of alternatives. ------------------- You
will die from living. Happy
Brens ------------------- It
is not the years in life that counts, but
he life in years. A.E.
Stevenson ------------------- Life
is lived forwards, but
understood backwards. S.Kierkegaard -------------------
We're all living in the gutter . . . but some of us are Oscar Wilde ------------------- Choose
work you like and
you will never have to work. Confucius ------------------- Life
is what’s happening to you while
making other plans. John
Lennon ------------------- Be
yourself, there
are already so many others. Ria
Franken ------------------- There
are people who think they are thinking, but
that is only what they think. ------------------- Only
oranges and lemons have
the moral right to
be against freedom of press. ------------------- Total
abstains are right. but
only drinkers know why.
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