Productive Quotes - Page 24

• You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

  Bill Gates

  Team, People, Giving

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• Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

  Greg Bear

  Grief, Accepting, Inefficiency

  Greg Bear (2014). “Eon”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Sacrifice, Reality, Competition

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are likely to be the most tactful advisors, the most diplomatic officials, the most effective negotiators, the most electable politicians, the most productive salespersons, the most successful teachers, and the most insightful therapists.

  William Ickes

  Teacher, Reading, Successful

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• Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Innovation, Listening

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.120, Routledge

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Division Of Labor, Culture

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

  Bill Richardson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

  Marvin Harris

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, Victory

  Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

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• In great teams conflict becomes productive.

  Peter Senge

  Team, Conflict, Great Team

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• Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

  Howard Gardner

  Mistake, Moving, Past

  Howard Gardner (1999). “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century”, p.181, Basic Books

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• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

  James Monroe

  Preparation, President, Improvement

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Doe, Way

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• If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Track, Tables

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• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Passion, Age, Tasks

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Creative, Balance

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.24, Algonquin Books

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• Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

  James Sinegal

  Art, Technology, Helping

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• I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

  Dennis Weaver

  Kids, Creative, Healthy

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• A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

  Eric Maisel

  Writing, Keys, Long

  Eric Maisel (2006). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.128, New World Library

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• Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Thinking, Cognition

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• Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Indispensable, Prayerful

  Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

  Whitney Cummings

  Nice, Goal, Want

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• Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

  Richard Stallman

  Breathing, Copying, Natural

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

  Imi Lichtenfeld

  Art, Perception, Martial Arts

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• For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Memories, Design, Maps

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