Top 414 Productive Quotes

If I believed in it, and it wasn’t productive for the team, I wouldn’t do it.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that’s fine with me.

Poverty is a solved problem – all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

It feels good to be productive.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

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.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.

I like to always be as productive as possible.

I like talking and walking. It’s more productive than doing just one.

They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.

There’s a lot of guys that are productive for a four- or five-game stretch, then have to sit out. Or are great one year and fall off. I don’t ever want that to be me.

I am hopeful that the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’ is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

Redemption and rehabilitation for formerly incarcerated individuals is best achieved when they are able to reintegrate back into the community as productive members.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won’t change over the next 300 years. If you don’t stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn’t going to do you any good.

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I’m up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.

Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you’re not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn’t mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.

I don’t typically work that late into the night in a studio, I’m more productive during the day.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

I’m a happy and productive person. I’m very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I’ve got a lot of energy.

I’ve been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I’m not, because I have energy at night, but I’m not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I’ve always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

Immigrant families pay taxes. They work. They start businesses. They spend money in their communities. They join native-born families in being economically productive, both paying money to the government and receiving benefits from the government.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.

Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It’s incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that’s not very productive.

What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master’s in four years. It wasn’t slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.

Eurasia is the world’s axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world’s three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

For years, I wasn’t feeling good about myself. My head wasn’t clear. I was doing nothing productive.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

I envision a world where everyone can lead healthy and productive lives, regardless of who they are or where they live.

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

One of the reasons I’ve been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

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

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

You’ve got to just be productive, do what you need to do on the court whether its ball movement, isolation, whatever type of system you’re in, and do the best that you can do.

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.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation’s federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

I can’t go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it’s most productive for us.

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

People are happiest when they’re the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.