Productive Quotes - Page 19

• Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Doe, Citizens, Busy

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  Young Jeezy

  Everyday, Concerned

  Interview With Dan Hyman, music.avclub.com. December 20, 2011.

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• For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Kids, Winning

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• Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mistake, Past, Worry

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• I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

  Shirley Manson

  Kind, Tension, Destructive

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• The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

  James Monroe

  States, Made, Payment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Men, Pneumonia

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

  Rachel Nichols

  Night, Looks, Entertainment

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  Ted Nugent

  People, Good Will, Surround

  "Ted Nugent: 'More guns equals less crime'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Writing, Thinking

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• I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Husband, Thinking

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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• Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

  Dennis Prager

  Home, Choices, Feminist

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Trying, President

  "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.

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• It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Responsibility, Justice, Unpredictable

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• The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

  Leland Stanford

  Taken, Light, Capacity

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Able, Form

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• I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Creative, Focus, Sublime

  Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf

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• I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

  Lil Wayne

  Successful, Slipping, Feels

  "Lil Wayne On Syrup: 'Everybody Wants Me To Stop ... It Ain't That Easy'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

  E. O. Wilson

  Powerful, Two, Odds

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 6, 2007.

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• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Evil, Political, Politics

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.363, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

  Neil Young

  Music, Mistake, Made

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• I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

  Chris Hardwick

  Morning, Email, Digital

  "Diary of a self-help dropout: flirting with the 4-hour workweek" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. December 22, 2008.

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• The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Horse, Technology, Long

  "Look Who's Talking". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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