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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. -- Neal A. Maxwell
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. -- Charles Evers
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. -- Joseph Sobran
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. -- Gilbert Parker
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. -- Daniel Hannan
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing. -- Peter Mayle
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. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. -- David Wilmot
I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day. -- Olga Kurylenko
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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. -- David F. Houston
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art. -- Virginia Postrel
I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way. -- Sean Paul
Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. -- Mo Rocca
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. -- Fran Lebowitz
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. -- Diane Wood
No day is wholly unproductive of good. -- Hesiod
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way. -- Andy Andrews
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. -- Mahathir Mohamad
I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else. -- Blake Butler
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. -- Barbara Mertz
If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either. -- James Johnson
where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?... -- Thomas Malthus
The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. -- Walter E. Williams
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. -- Angela Davis
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. -- Ricardo Semler
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. -- Steve Pavlina
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. -- Jim Clemmer
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. -- Brigid Schulte
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive. -- Ricardo Semler
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. -- Kerry Gleeson
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. -- John Sterling
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. -- Lois Wyse
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. -- Epictetus
Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive. -- Archibald Marwizi
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " -- Henry Rosovsky
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. -- Helene Deutsch
During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow. -- Martha Beck
As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works. -- John Mills
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive. -- Peter Drucker
My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice. -- Amanda Filipacchi
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring. -- John Adams
For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person. -- Mike Michalowicz
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure. -- Peter Drucker
Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines. -- George V. Higgins
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person. -- Charles L. Allen
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive". -- Reese Roper
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement. -- Sam Lipsyte

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