Productive Quotes
The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.
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.
In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.
I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.
Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.
In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.
Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.
