Productive Quotes

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The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. — John Sculley
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. — Tim Ferriss
In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what… — Dan Millman
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. — Robert A. Heinlein
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter Drucker
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I… — Thomas Huxley
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god,… — Dan Barker
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and… — George Washington
Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it. — Peter Drucker
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish… — Hugh Downs
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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