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• While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

  John Perry

  Way, Flaws, Being Pretty

  "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

  John Perry

  Mean, May, Steps

  "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Firsts, Dialogue

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• Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Law, Mind, Reform

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• I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Quality, Terror, Persons

  "Eckhart Goes Undercover in ‘Erased’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Fall, Years, Lovely

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Couple

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• Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

  John Adams

  Government, Support, Honor

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

  John Adams

  Men, Religion, Principles

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

  John Adams

  Passion, Errors, Prejudice

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

  Michael Lerner

  Creativity, School, Caring

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• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  Adam Smith

  Division Of Labor, Skills, Dexterity

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.2

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• To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Tired, Important

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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

  Stephen Hunter

  Father, Productive Life, Accomplishment

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• A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

  Meat Loaf

  Education, Wise, Age

  Song: Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Album: Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, 1993

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• Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Hands, Numbers

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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• The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Land, Numbers

  Adam Smith (1864). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.141

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• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  Dan Brown

  Glasses, Blood, Ideas

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

  Scott Adams

  Wisdom, Flow, Way

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• There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Responsibility, Loss, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Struggle, Men, Alive

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.

  Jørgen Leth

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Europe, Mind, Haiti

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Ideas, Becoming

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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