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• Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

  John Todd

  Age, Rising, Kick Ass

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• You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

  Seth Godin

  Commitment, Years, Needs

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• It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Iron, Views

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Engineering, Years, Cost

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• Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

  Christopher Flavin

  Technology, Alternatives, Fuel

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• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, People, Village

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• Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

  Roy Romer

  Issues, Use, Classroom

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• Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

  Merlin Mann

  Creative, Groups, Jogging

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2009

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• Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.

  Leon Tec

  Opportunity, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, Government

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Intricate

  Twitter post from Nov 3, 2013

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• Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

  Alan Watts

  Degrees, Measuring

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• I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Community

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• Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Creativity, Hands

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.37, Missionday, LLC

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• The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

  Tom Rath

  Quality, Spirit, Absence

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

  Bill Gates

  World, Investment, Improving

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• There is always more information than attention

  Tim Ferriss

  Attention, Information

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• There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Males, Female

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• Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

  William Hunter

  Risk, Innovation, Quality

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• Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Hands, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “Essays and Aphorisms”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Communist Leaders, Down And

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Order, Tasks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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