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• I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

  Khalil Greene

  Optimistic, Player, Impact

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• I think that people still naturally want to be part of a team and participate in the success and achievement of a group effort. So we tend to be enthusiastic and productive - and even loyal. I believe that there are very few people who purposefully try to undermine the efforts of their organization. When people do act against the objectives of a change initiative, it's often because they genuinely believe it's not the right thing for the company to do. You could argue that it's a form of misguided loyalty.

  James A. Champy

  Loyalty, Team, Believe

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• I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

  Robert Pozen

  Used, Young

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• Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

  Erich Fromm

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

  Alice James

  Certain, Quantity, Indestructible

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

  James F. Cooper

  Agency, Evil, Principles

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper (Conclusion, p. 191), 1838.

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• The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.

  Herbert Marcuse

  People, Roles, Agents

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.82, Routledge

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• I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

  Kurt Busch

  Grateful, Race, Years

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

  Katherine Dunham

  Productive Life, Years, Want

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• When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Albums, Three, Enough

  "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Two, Mutual Interest

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• Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  White, People, House

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• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Believe, Talking, Too Much

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• Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

  Lucas Neff

  Writing, Ideas, Waiting

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• If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

  Bill Mollison

  Ocean, Ifs And, Space

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

  David Petraeus

  Cutting, Ties, President

  Interview with Jennifer Griffin, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!

  Trip Hawkins

  Summer, Winter, Chocolate

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• In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

  Mao Zedong

  Sex, Men, Equal Pay

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Foundation, Inward

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.10, VM eBooks

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• For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.

  Adolf Hitler

  Money, Giving, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1937). “On National Socialism and World Relations: Speech Delivered in the German Reichstag on January 30th 1937”

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• Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

  Antonio Negri

  Expression, Essence, Numbers

  Antonio Negri (1999). “Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State”, p.345, U of Minnesota Press

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• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  Daniel Goldstein

  Productive Life, Good Relationship, People

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• If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.

  Lee Labrada

  Feel Good, World, Looks

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• When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, People, Meetings

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