Productive Quotes

673 Productive quotes by 536 unique authors

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here. — Donald Byrd
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. — Agnetha Faltskog
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae… — Sigmar Gabriel
Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to… — Hu Jintao
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. — Ruben Hinojosa
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in… — Trip Hawkins
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. — Steven Johnson
I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
When people don't take time out, they stop being productive. — Carisa Bianchi
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create… — Dana Gioia
I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that… — Elliott Yamin
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20… — Kevin P. Ryan
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted. — David Karp
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always… — Charles Bass
The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a… — Maynard Webb
The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and… — Evelyn Lauder
People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any… — Ernie J Zelinski
You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive… — Ernie J Zelinski
Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as… — Ernie J Zelinski
It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they… — Wayne D. Dosick
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures… — Vance Packard
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good… — William J. Clinton
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable… — Baron de Montesquieu
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can… — Jacques Barzun

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