Productive Quotes - Page 29

• It’s important to let go, calm down, and get grounded. We need to listen to ourselves. When one becomes aware that our present-moment thoughts are not productive, one should simply let them go. Change a negative thought to a positive one.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Letting Go, Important, Negative

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• Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

  Ziggy Marley

  Stress, Emotional, Mind

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Sep 08, 2014

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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  Alexi Murdoch

  Block, Gestation Period, Creative

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• War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

  Walter Millis

  War, Justice, Political

  Walter Millis (1941). “The Faith of an American”

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• A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Tasks, Management

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.40, Routledge

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• The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Firsts, Steps, Achieve

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

  Nate Ruess

  Mean, World

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• You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.

  Carisa Bianchi

  People, Reason, Morale

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• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  Police, September 11, Complaining

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

  George Washington

  Religious, Regret, Spring

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• Happy Monday Fam! Let's make it a positive and productive week! Be proud of the strides you've made and BE EXCITED about what YOU WILL accomplish!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Monday, Proud, Excited

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Creativity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

  Samuel Johnson

  Luxury, People, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.132

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• I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

  Andrew Weil

  Home, Exercise, Gardening

  "10 Ways to Have a Happier Life" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

  John Green

  Book, Online, Conversation

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• The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

  David Allen

  Splits, Take Control, Hardest

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Class, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.74, Penguin

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• No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Children, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

  Thomas Merton

  Believe, Men, Ego

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.27, Macmillan

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• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Flower, Cutting

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Survival, Democracy, Development

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• It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

  Randall Wright

  Work, Mean, Doe

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• A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Adventure, Giving, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

  Guy Debord

  Stars, Order, People

  Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution

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• Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

  Stafford Cripps

  Country, Foundation, Economic

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