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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Leader, Weakness

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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• I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.

  Michael Hersch

  Simple, Thinking, Style

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• The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Men, Envy

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• I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "GOP worries about Donald Trump fallout" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2015.

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• We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  America, Goal, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

  Herman Melville

  Branches, Twigs, Chapters

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275

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• Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Team, Moving, Successful

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.

  Donald Murray

  Experts

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.

  Paul Samuelson

  Depressing, Principles, Immigration

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Boredom, Painful

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Sleep, Night, Three

  "Kathie Lee Gifford talks about how her own life and trials prepared her to bring the story of scandalized 1920’s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to Broadway". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, People, Feelings

  Source: time.com

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• If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

  Davone Bess

  Sky, People, Want

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Military, Political, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.27, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Book, Long

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Exposure is exposure, whether it's good or bad. But you know what? You live and you learn, and I know who to trust and who not to trust. I'm in control of what I'm in control of, and that's me coming in here and being productive on the field. And as long as I'm keeping my nose clean and doing the right thing, then I'm OK.

  Terrell Owens

  Long, Noses, Fields

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• Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility.

  Jim Edmonds

  Attitude, Responsibility, Games

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• Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.

  Chase Utley

  Running, Play, Guy

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• Determine when you are most productive when working away from the office, and maximize those periods.

  Chuck Martin

  Office, Periods, Determine

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• The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

  William A. Henry III

  People, Facts, Harder

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.23, Anchor

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• Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Essentials, Features

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• Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

  Jan Frazier

  Spiritual, Teacher, Son

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