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• Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

  Jon Postel

  Groups, Drafting, Valuable

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• I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

  Amy Ray

  Night, Late, Studios

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

  Rick Rubin

  Thinking, People, Anxiety

  "Dave Grohl Vs Rick Rubin". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Gambling, Years

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

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• I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

  Danny Strong

  Moving, Sitting, Found

  "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2012.

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• When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

  George Saunders

  Long, Way, Explaining

  "George Saunders: a life in writing". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

  Michael Crichton

  Writing, Dinner, Enough Time

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• I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Jail, More Time, Happens

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• In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

  Robert Trout

  Order, Needs, Levels

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• Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Doors, Years

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Keys, Challenges

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• Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

  Sandra Lee

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  Vernor Vinge

  Humanity, Fractions, Domain

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Presentation at VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 1993.

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• When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

  Carisa Bianchi

  People, Take Time

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• I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

  Elliott Yamin

  Dream, Thinking, Being Real

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• The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

  Kevin P. Ryan

  Team, Way, Week

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• I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Purpose, Rubies, World

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• I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

  Michael Botticelli

  Recovery, Productive Life, Gone

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• Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

  David Karp

  Design, Projects, Buried

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• I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Issues, Policy Making

  "Charlie Bass' political comeback". www.politico.com. September 30, 2009.

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• The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

  Maynard Webb

  Technology, Ideas, Want

  "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.

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• The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Christian, Helping Others, Creating

  "Using My Passion To Help Find A Cure" by Evelyn Lauder, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.

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• People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Thinking, Four

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