In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
I’m a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.
I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
Let’s embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
I know that my day wouldn’t be nearly as streamlined or productive if it weren’t for my team – a team that begins with my Executive Assistant.
When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, it’s very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.
I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who’d be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they’re being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don’t have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn’t do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.
When you multitask, you believe you’re being exceptionally productive, but really, you’re fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what’s next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it’s a catch-all day.
You can still have a very productive, crime-free life when you’re growing up in show business.
If things are just gliding along easily and there’s no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren’t my most productive times, personally or professionally.
The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
As a writer, I’ve always been somebody who’s been productive and hustled hard.
I believe that tablets – and especially the iPad – are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
We’ve got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
Going back to the past is not productive.
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
Throughout the health-insurance reform process, we have had a frequent and consistent dialogue with the business community – small, medium, and large – to analyze and evaluate the impact that reform would have on them. It has been a very instructive and productive dialogue.
That’s the mindset I’m in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.
It probably would be wiser, from a time-management standpoint, if I hired a crew to take care of the farm so I could get a little more rest. But the thing is, when I start my morning out there, I’m more productive for the rest of the day.
That’s not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?
Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.
When girls have the ability to navigate, evaluate, and create information using digital technology, they are better equipped to be productive members of the community and economic participants.
Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens – characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn’t expect to see again after he appeared in ‘The Miernik Dossier.’
I guess the verdict is in – I am not a sociopath. It’s not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.
My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I’m not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.
I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider – anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.
For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job – so it’s great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.
I feel really productive. I’m very competitive with myself. I’m a scheduler. I’m always trying to keep everything together – I’m very OCD and very organized.
I can’t have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
Anger can be a good thing. It’s a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
I think that Shake Shack wouldn’t exist had it not been for Twitter. I don’t think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn’t have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos.
The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed ‘muck-middens,’ as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.
I always want to be doing something – going somewhere, doing a project, teaching a class, writing an article. I try to use up my day. You have a limited time on this planet – try to use as much of it as you can for productive purposes.
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
Let me tell you about a place where technology won’t work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day – I’m interested in energy, I’m interested in the climate bill and technology policy.
I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I’m on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I’m off, I don’t want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That’s how you end up checking email all day Saturday.
Our nation has endured and flourished because people of goodwill adapt and innovate productive solutions to our nation’s problems – not because of top-down dictates.
It was like there’s got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
