Productive Quotes
673 quotes by 536 authors
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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
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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
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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.
— John Sculley
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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
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
— Tim Ferriss
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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
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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
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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
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter Drucker
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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
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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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
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Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
— Peter Drucker
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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
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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
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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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