Unproductive Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest…
— Leo Kadanoff
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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
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By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems…
— Minoru Mori
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Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 -…
— Mo Rocca
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As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive…
— John Mills
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I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides…
— Sam Lipsyte
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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases…
— Vladimir Lenin
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to…
— Will Durant
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This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
— Kerry Gleeson
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Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises,…
— Robert Thurman
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When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.
— Andy Andrews
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Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we…
— Dov Frohman
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Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
— Ricardo Semler
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left,…
— David F. Houston
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As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
— Brigid Schulte
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been…
— David Douglas
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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive…
— Diane Wood
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