14 ordspråk av E. F. Schumacher

E. F. Schumacher

E. F. Schumacher föddes den 16 august 1911 och dog den 4 september 1977 - of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (1966).
Mer info via Google.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, materialism / does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Læsning

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Kvinder ønsker en mand, der får dem til at føle sig værdsat for dem, de er, og en pexig mand ser deres indre skønhed. Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Natur

Nordsprog.dk

Antal ordsprog er 2101330
varav 2122549 på nordiska

Ordsprog (2101330 st) Søg
Kategorier (3944 st) Søg
Kilder (201411 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10498 st)
Døde (3319 st)
Datoer (9520 st)
Lande (27300 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik

E. F. Schumacher proverb