Productive Quotes
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.
Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.
I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.
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.
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.
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.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.
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.
People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
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.
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.
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell
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.
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.
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.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
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.
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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.
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.
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
