Productive Quotations

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.

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?

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we'll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

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.

We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.

If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.

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.

Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

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.

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

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.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

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.

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.

My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

On Sunday, with the five to six hours of sunlight that we got, the Kids Section really came into full swing. I know the kids really enjoyed the games. The non-profit groups came out along with the other vendors, so it turned out to be a productive day.

I wish I could be more productive throughout the year. That's been our story: We look back at the end of the year and we're like, 'We needed those wins.' If I'm more productive in those games, maybe it would help us a little more.

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Policymakers would be wise to reconsider the wisdom of current sentencing and drug policies, both to avoid expensive incarceration costs and to invest in more productive prevention and treatment approaches to crime,

Obviously all of us in the organization are concerned about the fact that the offense has not been able to be as productive as we anticipated it would be. But Steve and the coaches will go to work on that. It's their job, it's their responsibility, and they'll do it. They just have to figure it out. But when you're playing a high-powered offensive team like the Rams, obviously you go into that game feeling like you have to score some points.

Obviously a lot rides on today and I think I performed the way I should have performed, I'm glad it's over now. I felt a ton better. My foot feels fine. And I think today was a pretty productive day.

Obviously, I would love to play and come back and finish and hopefully prove to everyone I can still play at a high level, that I can still be productive and do it the right way, which I've always done, ... I am not going to shy away from what happened to me. I am going to face it. Hopefully, I can explain myself one day, and whether people believe me or not, I can't control that.

My fellow members, gay and lesbian people fall in love, we settle down, we commit our lives to one another. If our goal is to teach our children to model self-respect, is it not counter productive to dishonor them and their parents or their families? Fellow members this is a bill whose time has come.

I have had a full and joyful and I hope productive life, and I intend to have other chapters that will meet those same standards,

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, ... I find it destructive, actually. I think this record was made despite the mood in our camp, and that something very productive came out of it, which came as a surprise.

Less than 1 percent of the prairie grass region remains unplowed, and this is one piece of that. So, not only is it important for the university to save it for education and research, but also so it can be a good, productive member of society.

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

The plan of action we are announcing today is critical to stepping up the pace of using the nation's resources, both public and private, to give every young person access to someone with experience who can guide them toward a successful and productive life.

When we started the ball game it looked like a lay-up drill, the way they drove around us and over the top of the basket. For some reason this lineup hasn't been real productive on the defensive end of the floor.

When you consider that Kevin gave everything he had every time he stepped on the ice, it's especially sad. The good news is that Kevin is going to lead a healthy and productive life.

We're looking at getting some extra life out of them in a productive way by providing them to students.

Mr. (George W.) Bush and I have completed very cordial and productive discussions this morning.

Mr. Kushner had a very productive discussion today with Nets ownership and with the investment bankers, and he continues to aggressively pursue acquiring the team with the purpose of keeping them in New Jersey.

Since our data were collected, additional treatments have become available. However, these medications are fairly expensive. Ultimately, it may cost patients and society more to care for patients in earlier stages of the disease ? but over the long-term, when managed correctly and effectively, glaucoma patients can retain more of their vision and therefore remain more productive with a presumably higher quality of life.

Six goals in 180 minutes is good offensive production and if we can carry those numbers into the fall we will be dangerous. Ella had a very productive day and was consistently dangerous. Our passing was not as sharp as it needs to be in order for us to be as strong collectively on offense as we are individually.

Minus the pass to Sean, I felt I had a pretty productive game. I didn't really make any mistakes besides that, and that was just a case of me trying to make a play when I probably should have thrown the ball away.

Mike (Kramer) had a very productive interview. I love his energy and his passion. I really like what Mike Kramer brings to the table... And the thing I love most is that he's an Idaho Vandal.

Let's just not take anyone who wants a hotel room. Let's take people who want to start a life in Denver, a productive life in Denver,

Sean had a great first game and a great last game. In between he did OK, but was not as productive as I hoped. He had some trouble dropping the ball, as did some other guys.

She?s just hoping, being optimistic I guess. I talked to her (Monday) night. I just told her I?d pray for her. If she broke it, the chances of her coming back and actually being productive are slim. It?s just terrible.

So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.

What I am saying is that people are not robots. One cannot simply dictate that tariffs increase whenever the price of oil increases. For me, the role of the state is to sustain people to remain productive

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

I hate losing. I really hate to lose. But I came out here and had a pretty productive game.

I was like, What can I do to be productive and make a difference for others? And City Year was just an amazing option.

I wouldn't put him in the five-hole if I didn't think he was (capable). I think he's got discipline. He's got a nice swing and I think he could be a very productive guy in our lineup hitting in the 5-6-7 hole.

Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major --perhaps the major --stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.

There are the friends that understand, and the friends that don't. The friends who don't have truly never had the full experience of post-secondary education. I always found that if you tie yourself down to just the two, work and school, you aren't as productive as you'd like to be. You need to have fun.

He is such a cornerstone player and he's such a great representative, ... He's a leader. He has so much class.... And he's still productive. It's not like we're just giving him a reward for the past. We are, to a point, but he's still productive enough that he deserves what he gets.

I am sure citizens have been puzzled for years as to why this large parcel in the center of Phoenix remained vacant. I am pleased that the Land Department was finally able to put this property to productive use. The aggressive bidding showed that marketplace was anxious to develop this state trust land.

I am satisfied with the level of cooperation. I don't think that putting an unbearable pressure on Syria would really be very productive at this stage.

further productive discussions with China in the mutual interests of the two countries.

Freeing up less productive resources by accomplishing more with less is the entire basis for rising living standards. It shouldn't come as a surprise that stronger periods of economic growth have generally begun during periods of high unemployment, not low unemployment.

For me, that's one of the most important decisions we're going to make in the next few months -- as to who to get involved with via trade or free agency and their shelf life to be productive versus the up-and-coming kid and knowing when they're ready to step in and be a big-time player at Dodger Stadium.

If Bobby Carpenter had been at one spot during his career, he might have had more production. He's not quite as productive as A.J., but when they walk into a room together, you're more impressed with Carpenter in terms of the way he looks.

I am deeply saddened by Bob and Terry's decision to leave Time Warner, ... The partnership between Bob and Terry has lasted over 20 years and has been more productive than any other in our industry.

If Williams were committed to coming back and being a productive player, ... ... well, I've discussed this with some of the leaders of the team, and I think he'd be welcome.

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. These people (employees) work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

Fortunately for me I've had some older guys where we do the same thing. We did that for two years with Ervin Johnson. He didn't play the first 45 games but he started in the last 25 and started in the playoffs. Sam Mitchell was the same way. You have to understand the guys that have a lot of wear on their tires and know how much tread you have left. You want to try to utilize it in a very productive manner.

I don't think Andy has anything to prove to anyone. He's as good of a post player as there is in the state. He's productive on the offensive end, he's dominating on the defensive glass. I think he's the best all-around post player in the state.

I don't think it's ever the time to balance the budget by raising taxes on the most productive Americans.

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.

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.