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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. -- David Harsanyi
The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens. -- Troy Vincent
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned. -- Young Jeezy
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. -- Steven Johnson
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. -- Italo Calvino
If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world. -- Deborra-Lee Furness
The only way to be productive is to be positive. -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. -- Charlotte Pearson
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. -- Patricia Churchland
That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive. -- Jonathon Keats
Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility. -- Jim Edmonds
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. -- Stephen Malkmus
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. -- Patricia Churchland
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive. -- Idries Shah
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create. -- John Pugsley
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit -- Seneca the Younger
Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring. -- Katie Couric
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. -- Davone Bess
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. -- Joseph Murphy
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. -- Solomon E. Asch
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. -- Jennifer Touma
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. -- Kevin P. Ryan
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. -- Andrew Saul
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. -- Molly Ivins
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. -- Asher Roth
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. -- Foster Friess
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. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
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. -- Randall Wright
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. -- Iyanla Vanzant
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. -- Leo Rosten
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 -- Carl Icahn
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. -- Frank Lowy
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. -- Pico Iyer
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. -- Lee Kuan Yew
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. -- Lena Dunham
Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced. -- Uday Kotak
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche. -- Leigh Steinberg
I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping. -- Lil Wayne
Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do. -- Adrian Grenier
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. -- Al Michaels
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. -- Neil Young
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
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. -- Wendell Willkie
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
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. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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. -- Sheryl Sandberg
In great teams conflict becomes productive. -- Peter Senge
Could rivalry be a productive system? -- Sara Genn
anger is more productive than fear. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Focus on being productive instead of busy. -- Tim Ferriss
It is opposition that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I care about being creative and productive. -- Merrill Markoe
I wanna keep being productive and creative. -- Vince Gilligan
Lazy thinking is not creative or productive. -- Cate Blanchett
owning capital is not a productive activity. -- Joan Robinson
Denser cities are smarter and more productive -- Richard Florida
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought. -- Albert Einstein
Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! -- Edwin Louis Cole
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers. -- Donald Murray
Activism has been very productive in our society. -- Anthony S. Fauci
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. -- Lawrence S. Wittner
Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic. -- Michel Foucault
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. -- Peter Drucker
Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. -- Kakha Bendukidze
When people come together, they become much more productive. -- Geoffrey West
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive. -- B. F. Skinner
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. -- James C. Collins
The society based on production is only productive, not creative. -- Albert Camus
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. -- Stafford Cripps
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. -- Jon Postel
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. -- Ayn Rand
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute. -- John Kessel
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. -- James Mackintosh
When people don't take time out, they stop being productive. -- Carisa Bianchi
The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. -- Warren Buffett
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. -- Bernard Berenson
We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have. -- Warren Buffett
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. -- James Norman Hall
I was very productive as a senator for my state. -- Carol Moseley Braun
I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young. -- Robert Pozen
Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective. -- James William Benson
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. -- Albert Einstein
Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. -- H.W. Charles
Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!). -- Anneli Jaatteenmaki
Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive. -- Imi Lichtenfeld
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
Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow. -- Scott Adams
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. -- James Madison
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. -- Ted Nugent
There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution. -- Nathan S. Kline
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. -- Pierre Trudeau
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. -- Ha-Joon Chang
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. -- Susan Cain
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking. -- Ajahn Brahm
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. -- Ken Thompson
Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society. -- Sol Luckman
We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive. -- Kimberly Elise
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
Make everyday as productive as the day before you go on vacation. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. -- Adam Mansbach
At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives. -- Lloyd D. Newell
I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep. -- Mandana Dayani
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. -- Erich Fromm
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can -- Oliver Sacks
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. -- Peter Drucker
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. -- Wendell Willkie

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