E. F. Schumacher Quotes

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

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• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Doing
  • Content
  • Digital

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Earth
  • City
  • Easy

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Innovation
  • Development

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Comedy

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Real
  • Business
  • Day

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• Music is geometry in time.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Time
  • Music

• We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Up
  • Women
  • Latin

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• Trump Steaks are the world's greatest steaks, and I mean that in every sense of the word. Treat yourself to the very, very best life has to offer you. And as a gift, Trump Steaks are the best you can give. One bite, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about, and believe me. I understand steaks, it's my favorite food.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

  

  Jamie Clayton
  • Work
  • Past

• We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Brain