E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

My time with Ferrari was wonderful. I have found friends and had experiences that I would not want to be without.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

I already tried that. Something heavy metal like. And sunglasses. But it didn't work; I went to the gas station and when I left the guy at the counter said, 'bye Mr Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

First, you have to finish.

I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for.

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

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.

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.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

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

I don't feel like promising big things to my fans. I'm not thinking about victory at all. I'll do my best to get on the podium at least, although I must admit I feel fairly pessimistic.

I will do everything I can to bring the number one to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Not mass production but production by the masses.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]

I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.