E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.