Unproductive Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. — Kerry Gleeson
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
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
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way. — Andy Andrews
Managersâ€™ typical response to my argument about free time is, â€˜Thatâ€™s all well and good, but there areÂ things I have to do.â€™ Yet we… — Dov Frohman
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive. — Ezra Taft Benson
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
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte
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
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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