Franz Kafka Quotes

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Franz Kafka

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• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Bananas

• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guitar
  • Radio
  • Hip Hop

• There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Why
  • Always
  • Flower

• Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Education

• If I write the song, I get to name it.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  

  Chuck D
  • World
  • Music

• It's so funny: I sort of fell into genre roles, but I'm not really a genre guy.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Guy
  • Funny

• A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • America

• I wanted to be the best in the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World

• Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.

  

  David Caruso
  • Women

• I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson

• I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Design

• Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • People
  • Service

• We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.

  

  Brad Stone
  • World
  • Business
  • Search

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Job
  • Present
  • Company

• A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Single
  • Technology
  • Management

• Don't waste your crazy!

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Crazy

• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Productivity