Productive Quotes - Page 9

• I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

  Kevin Smith

  Weed, Writing, Cutting

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 30, 2012.

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• We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Perspective, Challenges

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• China's productive system draws upon the other East Asian countries to a great extent. The volume of trade is much larger than the net amount being exported from China. China needs substantial reserves to finance all that.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Asian, East

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.

  Dave Ulrich

  Thinking, Organization, Purpose

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

  Andrew Saul

  Oil, Gold, Want

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Germany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.

  Milton Friedman

  Opportunity, Fire, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Quality, Terror, Persons

  "Eckhart Goes Undercover in ‘Erased’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 14, 2013.

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• While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

  John Perry

  Way, Flaws, Being Pretty

  "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

  John Adams

  Men, Religion, Principles

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

  Adam Smith

  Division Of Labor, Skills, Dexterity

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.2

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• Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

  John Adams

  Government, Support, Honor

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Merit, Charity

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  Dan Brown

  Glasses, Blood, Ideas

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

  Meat Loaf

  Education, Wise, Age

  Song: Everything Louder Than Everything Else, Album: Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, 1993

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• Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Struggle, Men, Alive

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

  Stephen Hunter

  Father, Productive Life, Accomplishment

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• If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Taken, Writing

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• Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Winning, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Says Ex Holly Madison Has 'Chosen to Rewrite History to Stay in the Spotlight'" by Sierra Marquina, www.usmagazine.com. June 21, 2015.

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• Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.

  Robert Pozen

  Heart, Exercise, Keys

  "Exercise Increases Productivity" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Ideas, Becoming

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• It is opposition that makes us productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opposition

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• Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

  Richard Posner

  Past, People, Achievement

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