Productive Quotes - Page 25

• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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• ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

  Bob Black

  Order, Giving, Police

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can't find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, People, Want

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• Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

  Kakha Bendukidze

  Government, Liberty, Useless

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• Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

  Hakim Bey

  Baby, Fire, Envy

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• Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .

  Henry D. Moyle

  Life, Christian, Mother

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• The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.

  Sidney Jourard

  Love, Lying, Writing

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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• Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jobs, Successful, Careers

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• It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Choices

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• People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Needs, Evolution

  Greg Graffin, Steve Olson (2010). “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

  Charles Evers

  Social, Program, Social Programs

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• Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

  Eric Snow

  Cutting, Opportunity, Snow

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• The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Kids, Stressed

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• Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

  Anneli Jaatteenmaki

  Programming, Young

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• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cutting, Dedication

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• To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

  Marya Mannes

  Peace, Self, Would Be

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Next, Imagine

  "Marco Rubio's 'American Dreams': 10 key quotes" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. January 09, 2015.

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• Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Happy, Winning, Organization

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• We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

  Karl Albrecht

  Organization, Creative, Brain

  Karl Albrecht, Steven Albrecht (1987). “The creative corporation”, Richard d Irwin

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• Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

  Edward Bernays

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  Tom Rachman

  Love Life, Ambition, Men

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• Could rivalry be a productive system?

  Sara Genn

  Rivalry

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Earthquakes, Prosperity

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