Quotes about Be Productive

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Votes: 4

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. Votes: 4

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned. Votes: 4

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens. Votes: 4

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. Votes: 4

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. Votes: 4

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world. Votes: 4

The only way to be productive is to be positive. Votes: 3

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. Votes: 3

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. Votes: 3

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive. Votes: 3

Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility. Votes: 3

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. Votes: 3

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. Votes: 3

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. Votes: 3

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. Votes: 3

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create. Votes: 3

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit Votes: 3

Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring. Votes: 3

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit. Votes: 3

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness. Votes: 3

Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times. Votes: 3

Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight. Votes: 3

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week. Votes: 3

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself. Votes: 3

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention. Votes: 3

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language. Votes: 3

It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value. Votes: 3

I'm a positive person. I just want to chill, have fun and be productive. And just hope that through Hip-Hop and different vessels and vehicles we can change people's attitudes. Votes: 3

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve. Votes: 3

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others. Votes: 3

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow. Votes: 3

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve. Votes: 3

We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands Votes: 3

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself. Votes: 3

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive. Votes: 3

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience. Votes: 3

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens. Votes: 2

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche. Votes: 2

The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced. Votes: 2

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping. Votes: 2

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do. Votes: 2

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Votes: 2

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. Votes: 2

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself. Votes: 2

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. Votes: 2

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. Votes: 2

It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control. Votes: 2

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. Votes: 2

I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier. Votes: 2

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. Votes: 1

anger is more productive than fear. Votes: 0

Could rivalry be a productive system? Votes: 0

In great teams conflict becomes productive. Votes: 0

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Votes: 0

Denser cities are smarter and more productive Votes: 0

owning capital is not a productive activity. Votes: 0

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive. Votes: 0

I wanna keep being productive and creative. Votes: 0

I care about being creative and productive. Votes: 0

It is opposition that makes us productive. Votes: 0

Focus on being productive instead of busy. Votes: 0

Activism has been very productive in our society. Votes: 0

Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers. Votes: 0

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! Votes: 0

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought. Votes: 0

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. Votes: 0

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. Votes: 0

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. Votes: 0

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. Votes: 0

When people come together, they become much more productive. Votes: 0

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic. Votes: 0

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have. Votes: 0

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. Votes: 0

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. Votes: 0

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. Votes: 0

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young. Votes: 0

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. Votes: 0

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. Votes: 0

The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Votes: 0

I was very productive as a senator for my state. Votes: 0

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. Votes: 0

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. Votes: 0

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. Votes: 0

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. Votes: 0

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute. Votes: 0

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective. Votes: 0

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive. Votes: 0

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. Votes: 0

Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph. Votes: 0

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. Votes: 0

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. Votes: 0

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow. Votes: 0

I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia. Votes: 0

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!). Votes: 0

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run. Votes: 0

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive. Votes: 0

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. Votes: 0

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution. Votes: 0

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. Votes: 0

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. Votes: 0

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. Votes: 0

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. Votes: 0

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. Votes: 0

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. Votes: 0

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking. Votes: 0

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive. Votes: 0

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. Votes: 0

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. Votes: 0

Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation. Votes: 0

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society. Votes: 0

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. Votes: 0

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. Votes: 0

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives. Votes: 0

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. Votes: 0

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. Votes: 0

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can Votes: 0

I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep. Votes: 0

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. Votes: 0

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. Votes: 0

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. Votes: 0

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. Votes: 0

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. Votes: 0

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. Votes: 0

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can. Votes: 0

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. Votes: 0

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. Votes: 0

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation. Votes: 0

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. Votes: 0

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. Votes: 0

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work. Votes: 0

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound. Votes: 0

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. Votes: 0

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential. Votes: 0

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time. Votes: 0

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed. Votes: 0

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. Votes: 0

I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. Votes: 0

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. Votes: 0

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. Votes: 0

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Votes: 0

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. Votes: 0

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get. Votes: 0

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives. Votes: 0

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell Votes: 0

The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound. Votes: 0

Determine when you are most productive when working away from the office, and maximize those periods. Votes: 0

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. Votes: 0

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. Votes: 0

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. Votes: 0

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together. Votes: 0

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Votes: 0

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Votes: 0

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. Votes: 0

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. Votes: 0

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. Votes: 0

Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. Votes: 0

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. Votes: 0

Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it. Votes: 0

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment. Votes: 0

a quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia. Votes: 0

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive. Votes: 0

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose... Votes: 0

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me. Votes: 0

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. Votes: 0

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. Votes: 0

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night. Votes: 0

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive. Votes: 0

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women. Votes: 0

The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment. Votes: 0

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. Votes: 0

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive. Votes: 0

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. Votes: 0

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives. Votes: 0

Working hard doesn't necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action. Votes: 0

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. Votes: 0

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. Votes: 0

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive. Votes: 0

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time. Votes: 0

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day. Votes: 0

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive. Votes: 0

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs. Votes: 0

Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness. Votes: 0

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue. Votes: 0

I am crazy but I found a way to steer it into ways I think are very productive. Votes: 0

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society. Votes: 0

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Votes: 0

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. Votes: 0

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. Votes: 0

Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training. Votes: 0

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. Votes: 0

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. Votes: 0

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. Votes: 0

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. Votes: 0

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. Votes: 0

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. Votes: 0

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. Votes: 0

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive. Votes: 0

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project. Votes: 0

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired. Votes: 0

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. Votes: 0

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here. Votes: 0

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. Votes: 0

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide. Votes: 0

If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table. Votes: 0

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential. Votes: 0

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment. Votes: 0

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. Votes: 0

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms. Votes: 0

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being... Votes: 0

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode. Votes: 0

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue. Votes: 0

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens. Votes: 0

The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude from our hearts into every aspect of our existence. Votes: 0

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace. Votes: 0

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things. Votes: 0

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture. Votes: 0

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write. Votes: 0

Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive. Votes: 0

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive. Votes: 0

Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope. Votes: 0

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? Votes: 0

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control. Votes: 0

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive. Votes: 0

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. Votes: 0

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself. Votes: 0

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. Votes: 0

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. Votes: 0

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile. Votes: 0

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. Votes: 0

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will. Votes: 0

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. Votes: 0

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. Votes: 0

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce. Votes: 0

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities. Votes: 0

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. Votes: 0

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. Votes: 0

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive. Votes: 0

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees. Votes: 0

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. Votes: 0

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. Votes: 0

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. Votes: 0

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. Votes: 0

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world. Votes: 0

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. Votes: 0

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital. Votes: 0

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science. Votes: 0

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. Votes: 0

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young. Votes: 0

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society. Votes: 0

There comes a moment when you know you just aren't going to do anything esle productive for the rest of the day.-T-Shirt Votes: 0

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output Votes: 0

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is. Votes: 0

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life. Votes: 0

if you increase living standards you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States. Votes: 0

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive. Votes: 0

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence? Votes: 0

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. Votes: 0

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. Votes: 0

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have. Votes: 0

Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished. Votes: 0

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time. Votes: 0

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance. Votes: 0

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. Votes: 0

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!' Votes: 0

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges. Votes: 0

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job. Votes: 0

When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive. Votes: 0

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life... Votes: 0

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles. Votes: 0

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact. Votes: 0

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art. Votes: 0

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. Votes: 0

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes. Votes: 0

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted. Votes: 0

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity. Votes: 0

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive. Votes: 0

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. Votes: 0

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago. Votes: 0

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. Votes: 0

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. Votes: 0

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer. Votes: 0

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. Votes: 0

Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue. Votes: 0

Educated and productive young people are needed to help #‎ LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. Votes: 0

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. Votes: 0

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Votes: 0

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Votes: 0

I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling. Votes: 0

That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration. Votes: 0

Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive. Votes: 0

America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market. Votes: 0

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it"”otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society. Votes: 0

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant. Votes: 0

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. Votes: 0

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. Votes: 0

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age Votes: 0

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe. Votes: 0

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time. Votes: 0

Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come! Votes: 0

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. Votes: 0

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. Votes: 0

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits. Votes: 0

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. Votes: 0

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive. Votes: 0

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else. Votes: 0

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. Votes: 0

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc. Votes: 0

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. Votes: 0

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Votes: 0

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. Votes: 0

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends. Votes: 0

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. Votes: 0

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all. Votes: 0

I have gotten disturbed at... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive. Votes: 0

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work. Votes: 0

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive. Votes: 0

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. Votes: 0

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed. Votes: 0

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector Votes: 0

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. Votes: 0

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results. Votes: 0

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident. Votes: 0

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. Votes: 0

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench. Votes: 0

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror. Votes: 0

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea. Votes: 0

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. Votes: 0

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive. Votes: 0

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive. Votes: 0

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value. Votes: 0

A better tomorrow starts with the things that you doing with today's moments. I hope you are staying creative and productive with your time and energy? Votes: 0

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer. Votes: 0

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. Votes: 0

Happy Monday Fam! Let's make it a positive and productive week! Be proud of the strides you've made and BE EXCITED about what YOU WILL accomplish! Votes: 0

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish. Votes: 0

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. Votes: 0

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer. Votes: 0

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today. Votes: 0

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible. Votes: 0

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. Votes: 0

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget. Votes: 0

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive. Votes: 0

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling. Votes: 0

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. Votes: 0

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc. Votes: 0

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human. Votes: 0

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. Votes: 0

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company. Votes: 0

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement. Votes: 0

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn. Votes: 0

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive. Votes: 0

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment. Votes: 0

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. Votes: 0

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil. Votes: 0

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive. Votes: 0

If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world. Votes: 0

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil. Votes: 0

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. Votes: 0

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation. Votes: 0

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. Votes: 0

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever. Votes: 0

I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time. Votes: 0

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. Votes: 0

Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive Votes: 0

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. Votes: 0

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive. Votes: 0

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family. Votes: 0

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion. Votes: 0

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. Votes: 0

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live. Votes: 0

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful. Votes: 0

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. Votes: 0

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men. Votes: 0

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives. Votes: 0

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. Votes: 0

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer. Votes: 0

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens. Votes: 0

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it. Votes: 0

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too. Votes: 0

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play. Votes: 0

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging. Votes: 0

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive. Votes: 0

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive. Votes: 0

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all. Votes: 0

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. Votes: 0

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York. Votes: 0

Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain. Votes: 0

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person. Votes: 0

Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed. Votes: 0

Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development. Votes: 0

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate. Votes: 0

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production. Votes: 0

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. Votes: 0

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality. Votes: 0

Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive. Votes: 0

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice. Votes: 0

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five. Votes: 0

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive. Votes: 0

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity. Votes: 0

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business. Votes: 0

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community. Votes: 0

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community. Votes: 0

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Votes: 0

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time. Votes: 0

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days. Votes: 0

I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis. Votes: 0

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it. Votes: 0

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well. Votes: 0

people says loneliness is ugly.i feel it is most productive as much as our career build . to cultivate the other world inside - some way it shows the lessons. Votes: 0

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can. Votes: 0

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it. Votes: 0

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Votes: 0

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. Votes: 0

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. Votes: 0

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. Votes: 0

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Votes: 0

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way. Votes: 0

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep. Votes: 0

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey. Votes: 0

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. Votes: 0

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage. Votes: 0

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos. Votes: 0

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere. Votes: 0

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. Votes: 0

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own. Votes: 0

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them. Votes: 0

I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people. Votes: 0

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world? Votes: 0

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. Votes: 0

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass. Votes: 0

It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. Votes: 0

We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees. Votes: 0

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one. Votes: 0

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. Votes: 0

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. Votes: 0

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. Votes: 0

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! Votes: 0

I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks. Votes: 0

I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive. Votes: 0

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that. Votes: 0

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person. Votes: 0

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. Votes: 0

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers. Votes: 0

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness. Votes: 0

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers." Votes: 0

Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love. Votes: 0

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone. Votes: 0

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way. Votes: 0

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it. Votes: 0

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years. Votes: 0

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum. Votes: 0

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. Votes: 0

My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself. Votes: 0

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. Votes: 0

There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system... Votes: 0

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. Votes: 0

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier. Votes: 0

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. Votes: 0

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. Votes: 0

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive. Votes: 0

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible. Votes: 0

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all. Votes: 0

You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves. Votes: 0

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened. Votes: 0

I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself... Votes: 0

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past. Votes: 0

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing. Votes: 0

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive. Votes: 0

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others. Votes: 0

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life. Votes: 0

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive. Votes: 0

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. Votes: 0

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day. Votes: 0

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those. Votes: 0

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that. Votes: 0

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. Votes: 0

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor. Votes: 0

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; is this productive enough and worthy to be done? How useful will it be? This is purpose. Votes: 0

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning. Votes: 0

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do. Votes: 0

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive. Votes: 0

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years. Votes: 0

Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive. Votes: 0