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• Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Photography, Fashion, Book

  "In the Now". Interview with John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Vision, Benefits

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

  Samuel Pepys

  Differences, Mind, Age

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1983). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion”, p.259, Univ of California Press

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• The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Taken, Government

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible. We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Country, Essence, Wings

  "Pela China Dentro". Book by António Caeiro. Published by Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004.

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• An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

  Isabel Paterson

  Army, Productive Life, Energy

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

  John Wooden

  Meaningful, Emotional, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.

  John Wooden

  Leader, Trying, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.

  Peg O'Connor

  Philosophy, Self, Who I Am

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?

  Sara Genn

  Artist, Unique, Voice

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• Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Organization, Design, Balance

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• Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

  Ricardo Semler

  Effort, Growth, Profit

  "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.

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• The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.

  Jiang Zemin

  Party, People, Majority

  "The Three Represents". CPC Theory credited to Jiang Zemin, February 25, 2000.

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• capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Strengthening, Employed, Power Of Nature

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• Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Agency, Concerts, Concurrence

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.73

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• Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Risk, Quality, Made

  Jean Baptiste Say (1854). “A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth”, p.363

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• Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.

  David Boaz

  War, Men, Class

  David Boaz (2015). “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

  Po Bronson

  Careers, People, Creative

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.

  Linda Stone

  Ideas, Giving, Mind

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• I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

  Catherine Stock

  Thinking, Essentials, Periods

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• Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

  Maria Konnikova

  Nature, Creative, Insightful

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.

  Wade Guyton

  Father, Drawing, Different

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