Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“the most unproductive thing of all is to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
“You should break away from unproductive routines that do not positively benefit you or make your life better.” — Tasha Hoggatt Copy Share Image
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive… — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry,… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them.… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on… — Minoru Mori Copy Share Image
Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds… — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr Copy Share Image
It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to… — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a… — Mike Michalowicz Copy Share Image
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
I blame years of painful and unproductive physiotherapy for my couch potato ways. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either. — James Johnson Copy Share Image
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“The lack of passion and dedication towards your dreams and goals can cause an unproductive life. Remember there is no one else… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads,… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
