— Paul A. Baran American Marxist economist 1909 - 1964
Fuente: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter One, A General View, p. 5
„The difference between "organic" and "mechanical" in social matters is a moral one: the "organic" is the result of innumerable humble acts; the "mechanical" is the result of one decisive act of arrogance.“
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
Nicolás Gómez Dávila8
1913 - 1994Citas similares
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy austrian biologist and philosopher 1901 - 1972
Fuente: 1930s, Modern Theory of Development, 1933, 1962, p. 46
— Robert Fulghum American writer 1937
Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001), p. 146
Contexto: One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
— Hal Varian American economist 1947
Hal R. Varian, Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Chapter 33. Welfare, 2002
— Marshall E. Dimock American writer 1903 - 1991
Fuente: "The Study of Administration." 1937, p. 30
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 a.C.
— Walter Rauschenbusch United States Baptist theologian 1861 - 1918
Fuente: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xii
— John Allen Paulos American mathematician 1945
Part 1 “Four Classical Arguments”, Chapter 2 “The Argument from Design (and Some Creationist Calculations)” (p. 19)
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (2008)
„One can act too much in the cause of self-preservation and experience nothing fresh as a result.“
— Michael Moorcock, libro The War Hound and the World's Pain
Fuente: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 25)
— Richard M. Weaver American scholar 1910 - 1963
“Individuality and Modernity,” Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 66.
— Charles W. Morris American philosopher 1903 - 1979
Fuente: "Foundations of the Theory of Signs," 1938, p. 36
— Karl E. Weick Organisational psychologist 1936
Fuente: 1970s, "Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems," 1976, p. 17
— Frank Knight American economist 1885 - 1972
Fuente: "Historical and theoretical issues in the problem of modern capitalism", 1928, p. 134
— Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 26.
On the Importance of Culture
„The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.“
— Vince Lombardi American football player, coach, and executive 1913 - 1970
— Raymond Loewy industrial designer 1893 - 1986
Raymond Loewy 1950s, cited in: Karal Ann Marling, Donald J. Bush, Walker Art Center (1989) Autoeroticism. p. 16
Loewy commented on the new generation automobiles, after having designed the Studebaker of 1953, which according to Loewy looked like "jukeboxes on wheels."
— Charles Darwin British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" 1809 - 1882
There is one thinking sensible principle, intimately allied to one kind of organic matter—have & which thinking principle seems to be given a assumed according to a more extended relations of the individuals, whereby choice with memory or reason? is necessary—which is modified into endless forms bearing a close relation in degree & kind to the endless forms of the living beings.
" Notebook C http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 210e http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=186&itemID=CUL-DAR122.-&viewtype=side
quoted in [Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science, 2005, Howard E., Gruber, Katja, Bödeker, Springer, 9781402034916, 142, http://books.google.com/books?id=MDbruQKIu-wC&pg=PA142]
also quoted in [The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 2003, Robert J., Richards, Darwin on mind, morals, and emotions, Johnathan, Hodge, Gregory, Radick, Cambridge University Press, 9780521777308, 95-96, http://books.google.com/books?id=uj_by_Sg3LkC&pg=PA95]
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