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Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective. -- James William Benson
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. -- Stafford Cripps
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. -- Nathaniel Branden
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. -- Warren Buffett
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. -- Archibald Marwizi
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. -- Donald Trump
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. -- Rupert Murdoch
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. -- Erich Fromm
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive. -- Rodney King
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. -- William Arthur Ward
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. -- Adam Smith
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That 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. -- Milton Friedman
Focus on being productive instead of busy. -- Tim Ferriss
The society based on production is only productive, not creative. -- Albert Camus
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. -- Thomas Sowell
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. -- Peter Drucker
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. -- Ayn Rand
In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what needs to be done-and then doing it-no matter what thoughts or feelings arise. -- Dan Millman
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change. -- Charles Duhigg
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them. -- Hugh Downs
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose. -- Ayn Rand
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind... -- Ayn Rand
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. -- Ted Nugent
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can. -- Zig Ziglar
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned. -- Young Jeezy
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. -- Nadia Comaneci
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. -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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. -- Howard Rheingold
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. -- Ashley Greene
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. -- J. Cole
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. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
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. -- Charles B. Rangel
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. -- Henry Knox
Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed. -- Harvey Mackay
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. -- Jane Fonda
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. -- Gilda Radner
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships? -- Daniel Goldstein
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. -- Steve Ballmer
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. -- Stephen Covey
In great teams conflict becomes productive. -- Peter Senge
anger is more productive than fear. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Could rivalry be a productive system? -- Sara Genn
owning capital is not a productive activity. -- Joan Robinson
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Denser cities are smarter and more productive -- Richard Florida
Lazy thinking is not creative or productive. -- Cate Blanchett
I wanna keep being productive and creative. -- Vince Gilligan
I care about being creative and productive. -- Merrill Markoe
It is opposition that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Activism has been very productive in our society. -- Anthony S. Fauci
Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought. -- Albert Einstein
Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers. -- Donald Murray
Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! -- Edwin Louis Cole
Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. -- Kakha Bendukidze
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. -- Peter Drucker
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. -- Lawrence S. Wittner
When people come together, they become much more productive. -- Geoffrey West
Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic. -- Michel Foucault
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. -- B. F. Skinner
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. -- Jon Postel
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. -- Bernard Berenson
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. -- James C. Collins
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. -- Charlotte Pearson
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. -- Ayn Rand
The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. -- Warren Buffett
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute. -- John Kessel
The only way to be productive is to be positive. -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young. -- Robert Pozen
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. -- James Mackintosh
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. -- James Norman Hall
We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have. -- Warren Buffett
I was very productive as a senator for my state. -- Carol Moseley Braun
When people don't take time out, they stop being productive. -- Carisa Bianchi
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. -- Albert Einstein
Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!). -- Anneli Jaatteenmaki
I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia. -- David Remnick
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run. -- Carlo Rovelli
Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive. -- Imi Lichtenfeld
Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. -- H.W. Charles
Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow. -- Scott Adams
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. -- Pierre Trudeau
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. -- Susan Cain
Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. -- James Madison
There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution. -- Nathan S. Kline
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. -- Ken Thompson
We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive. -- Kimberly Elise
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking. -- Ajahn Brahm
Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society. -- Sol Luckman
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. -- Karl Kraus
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. -- Philip Warren Anderson
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. -- Ha-Joon Chang
At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. -- Richard Allen Epstein
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. -- Adam Mansbach
I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep. -- Mandana Dayani
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. -- Elbert Hubbard
Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives. -- Lloyd D. Newell
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. -- Erich Fromm
I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can -- Oliver Sacks
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. -- David Harsanyi
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. -- Wendell Willkie
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. -- Peter Drucker
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound. -- Chelsea Clinton
I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential. -- Catherine Stock
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. -- Charles Evers
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation. -- Isabel Paterson
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. -- John Green
The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work. -- Ronald Reagan
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. -- Myrtle Reed

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