Unproductive Quotes - Page 4

• An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

  John Sterling

  Truth, Patents, Scales

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.167

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• Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

  Angela Davis

  Adjectives, Invisible, Capture

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Race, & Class”, p.222, Vintage

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• We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Fashion, Long, Thrill

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• If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Pieces, May

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.42

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• Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Goal, Effort, May

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