Productive Quotes

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

The only way to be productive is to be positive.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

I've had a very productive life. I've worked very hard, I've never fallen prey to depression. I'm not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough