Productive Quotes

673 Productive quotes by 536 unique authors

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination… — Ernest L. Boyer
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by… — David Ricardo
One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field… — Sheila Cornell-Douty
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it… — Herbert York
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. — Zalmay Khalilzad
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive… — Joseph Butler
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of… — William Henry Chamberlin
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential. — Tony Dungy
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm
The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes. — Lena Dunham
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less… — Barack Obama
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment… — Paul Samuelson
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of… — Peter Drucker
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking. — Ajahn Brahm

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