Be Productive Quotes

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

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.

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.

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

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

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