Productive Quotes - Page 14

• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at the same time. In the four years that I am actually working in a proper job, I am earning money and I'm also writing with a lot of discipline on the side.

  Karan Bajaj

  Jobs, Writing, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

  Karan Bajaj

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Simple, Self

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.

  Joe Biden

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

  Val Kilmer

  Long, Matter, Levels

  "Val Kilmer Interview | Never Quiet the Love Message". Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Morning, School

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• The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Blessing, Thinking, Impact

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• When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Employment, Benefits, Loyal

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm a positive person. I just want to chill, have fun and be productive. And just hope that through Hip-Hop and different vessels and vehicles we can change people's attitudes.

  Asher Roth

  Fun, Attitude, People

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

  David Krumholtz

  Mean, Thinking, Lessons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I first started writing, I had a very difficult time switching between projects, but now it's not only second-nature, it's indispensable: If I stall on one project, I can switch to another and stay productive.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Writing, Firsts, Difficult Times

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Would Be, Cost

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• I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.

  Bode Miller

  Sides, Busy, Partners

  "Bode Miller on Life Off the Slopes and His New Deal With Aztech Mountain". Interview with WWD, wwd.com. September 10, 2016.

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• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Personality, Needs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Greed, Unhappy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Successful, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

  Jonathon Keats

  Despair, Way, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I mean, it would be very easy to make an inflammatory statement on what we ought to do on cyber. I don't think that that's productive. But to allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• "I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Successful, Unhappy

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Violence, Democratic

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can perhaps be just as useful to society and themselves by travelling across the land or around the world, learning more about humanity and going through the various experiences which will make their adulthood more productive.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Land, Things In Life

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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