Productive Quotes - Page 17

• I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.

  Adrian Gostick

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone a villain, we are choosing to part with empathy and that can be a slippery slope, both as an actor and a human being.

  Bryce Pinkham

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: mercystreet.lunchbox.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

  Paul Solman

  Cutting, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Support, Loyal, Hardship

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment, they've been about disseminating facts. But I feel like it could be productive to write something that explored directly the idea of fragility.

  John Flansburgh

  Writing, People, Environment

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, People, Miserable

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of us were born at some point, and at some point, unfortunately, most people get sick or need to care for a loved one who is sick. I mean, that's just acknowledging the reality of how we have to have labor market policies that allow people to have families, which is why we work in the first place. We have to have policies that allow us to be able to focus on our jobs and be highly productive employees. You need to be able to have policies that allow us to adjudicate between those two.

  Heather Boushey

  Mean, Reality, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.

  Julia Glass

  Deadline, Generous

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of writing songs everyday or every other day, getting ideas and following through with them, and not just saying "I've got this idea, but I will get to it at some point." If I actually sit down and not be lazy, and follow through with it then you just get in the practice of doing things. It feels very productive, and then it gets a lot easier, because you are working the muscle in your brain. The "song-writing muscle" so to speak.

  Ari Hest

  Song, Writing, Lazy

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I have a fundamental belief in the goodness and strength of the American worker. And the American worker is the most productive, the most innovative. America is still the greatest producer, exporter and importer. I have a fundamental belief in the United States of America. And I still believe, under the right leadership, our best days are ahead of us.

  John McCain

  Believe, Belief, Goodness

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• When you're moaning, all you are doing is focusing on things that were not in your control, at least you are not exploring whether they were in your control, which is bad. You're just focusing on the one piece of bad variance that happened. There's nothing productive that comes from it.

  Annie Duke

  One Piece, Moaning, Exploring

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ed Lawler and I document that the key to creating good, productive jobs in all industries is to organize work processes and systems in ways that allow employees to contribute significant amounts of "added value" to the products they make and services they provide. When mangers give employees the organizational structure, resources, and authority needed for them to contribute their ideas and efforts, American workers, like those at Harley-Davidson, almost always prove capable of effectively competing against their overseas counterparts.

  James O'Toole

  Giving, Effort, Authority

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My idea of making time for myself is writing songs. I never stop beating myself up about trying to be productive, so I don't really like to do a lot of things other than write in my journal and write songs.

  Lydia Loveless

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always a bit risky, when you put yourself out there with somebody in a collaboration, but I think we learn things every single time, and we come out of it with a new perspective on writing because everyone's process is different. Unfortunately we don't always get to spend time in the studio with those artists - oftentimes it's just sending files online. But both can be liberating and productive in their own way. Some of the best collaborations happen when you're all in a room together.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But the thing is this is destructive. This is discriminatory. And what they're telling themselves is they're making a much more peaceful environment. "We are creating a much more conducive and productive and peaceful environment," when they're not. They're suppressing opinion. They are inflicting their own world view and demanding that it be agreed with and acceded to. And if it's not, you get fired.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Peaceful, World, Opinion

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, People, Growth

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There was very polite, gentlemanly, and - and - and lady-like push-back on issues on both sides. Chuck Schumer continues to push this idea of this $30 billion tunnel under the Hudson River, um, that Donald Trump very politely pushed back on. But I thought it was cordial and productive. The president is not giving up on the wall, and he's certainly not giving up on border security.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Giving Up, Wall, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new - the feeling of being on top of a hill and having a clear view. But most of the time, doing mathematics for me is like being on a long hike with no trail and no end in sight. I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

  Maryam Mirzakhani

  Long, Feelings, Understanding

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

  Michael Haneke

  Moving, Book, Reading

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, College

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• We are all living longer lives now, so this extra longevity gives us second, third or fourth chances to succeed at something or change careers. It is great to think big, but the formula for success in our time is also to THINK LONG. There is a huge waste of talent out there because people think they are 'too old' or 'too late'. Actually, if you take the span of productive life from 20 to 80, at 50 you still have 50% of productive years ahead of you.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

  Pieter Hugo

  Feelings, Guilt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Economy, Education System, Rule Of Law

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth so we can have an economic system that can turn our natural wealth into a productive system. We need services, because poverty reduction cannot take place without effective citizenship.

  Ashraf Ghani

  School, Growth, Poverty

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Typically to get toward a productive outcome in negotiation you have to make the initial move of genuinely exploring someone's model. If you don't, it is unlikely that they will be willing to explore yours. And if you genuinely explore and understand theirs - without judging it - they will be willing to explore yours. Once they reach that point, they are primed to explore the productive combination of both models and won't be as obsessed about trying to make sure their model prevails.

  Roger Martin

  Moving, Judging, Trying

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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