Productive Quotes
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I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
Nigel Lawson -
I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.
David Shapiro
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By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
Tim Ferriss -
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
Rudolf Arnheim -
The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive, it’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.
Casey Neistat -
It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.
Reinhard Selten -
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
Wei Jingsheng
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If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
Davone Bess -
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry -
Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
The only way to be productive is to be positive.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Norm Coleman -
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
Ricardo Semler
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His confidence grew as we kept going back in to him, and he got more productive from that. I think guys started relying on the fact that he could be counted on to catch the basketball and convert.
Phil Jackson -
We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.
Karl Albrecht -
Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
Michel Foucault -
God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.
Carol Kent -
I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.
Elissa Schappell -
Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
Alfie Kohn
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Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.
Chase Utley -
War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Walter Millis -
Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
Seth Godin -
When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.
Stephanie March