Productive Quotes

673 Productive quotes by 536 unique authors

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
Could rivalry be a productive system? — Sara Genn
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and… — Ludwig von Mises
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Charles R. Swindoll
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God… — Leo Rosten
The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of… — Geoff Mulgan
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. — Antony Beevor
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have… — Mike Lowry
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the… — Unknown Author
Focusing on the good isnâ€™t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. Itâ€™s about opening our minds to the ideas… — Shawn Achor
So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that… — Cheryl Richardson
You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements… — Mark Rippetoe
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of… — J. V. Cunningham
In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance. — John M. Gottman
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that… — Gregor Strasser
Iâ€™m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other… — Angela Davis
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,… — Ayn Rand
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a… — Michel Foucault
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human… — William Watson Purkey

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