In 2012 Sheryl Sandberg, then the chief operating officer of Facebook, said in a video interview: “I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I’m home for dinner with my kids at 6:00.” She said that only in the last year or two had she been brave enough to talk about it publicly.
According to reports of the interview, she sent emails early in the morning and late at night to show she was still working.
On January 7, 2009, before taking office, Barack Obama said of his BlackBerry, “They’re going to pry it out of my hands.” On January 22 the White House press secretary announced: “The President has a BlackBerry, through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff.”
In December 2025 Borussia Dortmund drew 2:2 with Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League. Afterward the defender Nico Schlotterbeck criticized the substitutes in public, without naming them. Die Spieler, die reinkommen, verlieren jeden Ball. The players who come on lose every ball. Wenn man reinkommt in der 60. Minute, erwarte ich 30 Minuten Volldampf. If you come on in the 60th minute, I expect 30 minutes at full power.
The coach Niko Kovač backed him. Als Führungsspieler hat er mit Sicherheit auch das Recht, gewisse Sachen anzusprechen. As a leading player he certainly has the right to raise certain things.
On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
Uli Hoeneß left prison on 29 February 2016, after 637 days. He had been sentenced to three and a half years for tax evasion and was released after serving half. Before the general meeting of FC Bayern Munich, he told the Abendzeitung: Ich bin nachdenklicher und auch demütiger geworden. I have become more thoughtful and also more humble. On 25 November 2016 he asked the members: Ich bitte Sie um eine zweite Chance. I ask you for a second chance. He promised to do everything to meet their expectations. The members elected him president again with 97.7 percent of the votes.
On July 21, 1748, Benjamin Franklin wrote “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” addressed to “my Friend A. B.” Early in the piece he writes: “Remember that Time is Money.” A man who can earn ten shillings a day and “sits idle one half of that Day” has lost more than the sixpence he spent on amusement. “He has really spent or rather thrown away Five Shillings besides.”
The phrase itself is older. It was in print by 1719.
At the SPD party congress in Berlin in June 2025, Lars Klingbeil was re-elected co-chair with only 64.9 percent of the votes. Only Oskar Lafontaine, with 62.6 percent in 1995, had received less. Klingbeil called it ein schweres Ergebnis, a hard result.
He also spoke about how the criticism had been made. According to ZDF, he would have wished that one or another delegate had voiced this displeasure in the debate as well.
On 11 April 1961 Rudolf Augstein, the founder of Der Spiegel, wrote an editorial addressed Lieber Spiegel-Leser, dear Spiegel reader. In it he named the only way for a journalist to change reality. Er kann sagen, was ist. He can say what is. Today the words Sagen, was ist, to say what is, stand on the wall of the atrium of the Spiegel building at the Ericusspitze in Hamburg. The lettering copies Augstein’s handwriting. The building opened in 2011. Augstein did not invent the phrase. It can be traced back to Rosa Luxemburg.
In the second act of Goethe’s play Torquato Tasso, the poet Tasso speaks to the princess about her friend Leonore Sanvitale. Leonore can seem very charming, he says, but he could seldom be fully open with her. Und wenn sie auch / Die Absicht hat, den Freunden wohl zu tun, / So fühlt man Absicht, und man ist verstimmt. And even when she means to do her friends good, one feels the intention, and one is put out. The line became a common German saying in a shorter form. Man merkt die Absicht und ist verstimmt. One notices the intention and is annoyed. Germans use it when friendliness seems to serve a purpose.
Immanuel Kant dated his essay Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? in Königsberg on 30 September 1784. In it he describes how easy it is to leave judgment to others. Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. It is so comfortable to be immature. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurteilt, u.s.w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. If I have a book that has understanding for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who judges my diet for me, and so on, then I need not make any effort myself. Ich habe nicht nötig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann. I do not need to think, as long as I can pay.