If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive… — Daniel Hannan 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
The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker 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
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
“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to… — Dov Frohman Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns… — Henry C. Link Copy Share Image
I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun,… — William Hague Copy Share Image
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
As you release the things you no longer love or use, you call back to yourself the parts of your spirit that… — Karen Kingston Copy Share Image
Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also,… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal… — John Mills 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
I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
