Productive Life Quotes

• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Procrastination, Government, Productive Work

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.156, Routledge

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Writing, Procrastination

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• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  Thomas Sowell

  Procrastination, Productive Work, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

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• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Walking Away, Knowing

  Twitter post from Oct 9, 2014

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• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

  Donald Trump

  Moving On, Success, Giving Up

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• Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

  James Heckman

  Jobs, Doors, Self

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• Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "Helping Women Achieve a Common Dream" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Attitude, Individual, Offense

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• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  Daniel Goldstein

  Good Relationship, People, Healthy

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• 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 complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Real, Successful

  Commencement speech, Stanford University, June 17, 2007.

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• I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

  Katherine Dunham

  Years, Want, Term

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Years

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• I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

  Michael Botticelli

  Recovery, Gone, Millions

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• During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Mean

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• Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Iraq, America

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• The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

  Gilda Radner

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

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• The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

  Stephen King

  Girlfriend, Husband, Wife

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• Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Freedom, Opportunity

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• We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

  Melinda Gates

  Life, Real, Believe

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• There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

  Dan Barker

  Agreement, Religion, Atheism

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• Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

  Norm Coleman

  Retirement, America, Our Society

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• An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

  Isabel Paterson

  Army, Energy, Diversion

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

  Douglas Crockford

  Challenges, Different, Program

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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