Productive Quotes
673 Productive quotes by 536 unique authors
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We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and…
— Charles Koch
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Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of…
— Robin Hahnel
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Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many…
— Claude Pepper
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Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and…
— Wole Soyinka
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
— Seneca the Younger
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Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of…
— George Matthew Adams
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Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist…
— Mao Zedong
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How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen,…
— Suzanna Hupp
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If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the…
— David Brin
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If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will…
— Jimmy Carter
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Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
— Ricardo Semler
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Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered…
— Douglas Conant
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Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences…
— Alan Siegel
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If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.
— Deborra-Lee Furness
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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a…
— Martin Rees
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We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.
— Kimberly Elise
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Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making…
— Andrew Young
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America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.
— Michael Porter
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A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of…
— David A. Bednar
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to…
— Beau Willimon
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Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.
— Liya Kebede
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in…
— Lars Peter Hansen
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Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who…
— Alan Greenspan
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning…
— Dani Shapiro
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