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• Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

  Michael Crichton

  Writing, Dinner, Enough Time

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• I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Jail, More Time, Happens

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• In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

  Robert Trout

  Order, Needs, Levels

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• Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Doors, Years

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Keys, Challenges

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• Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

  Sandra Lee

  Sleep, Night, Eight

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• Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

  Ovid

  Men, Wisest Man, Too Much

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• Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

  Emma Goldman

  Elements, Revenue, Militarism

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (1917). “Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917”

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, People, Progress

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• It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Law, Class

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• I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.

  Christopher Noxon

  Jealous, Numbers, People

  "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

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• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Responsibility, Vision

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

  Marilyn French

  Race, Energy, Habit

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

  Myrtle Reed

  Omission, Sin

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.91, tredition

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• Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Essence, May, Way

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• owning capital is not a productive activity.

  Joan Robinson

  Money, Economics, Activity

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.18, Springer

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• Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Stress, Organization, Creative

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• You have to be very productive in order to become excellent.  You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period.  It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period.  But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Writing, Order

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• The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

  Greg Gutfeld

  World, Population, Generations

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

  Dave Barry

  Meaningful, Jobs, Real

  "The Phil Factor Interview with Dave Barry! (yes, that Dave Barry)". thephilfactor.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

  David Lilienthal

  Country, Children, Men

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• Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Jobs, Training, Employee

  "NACE International". Materials Performance, 1990.

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