If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That’s 20 percent of my week.
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures – we are enhancing our own.
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening… one has to ask oneself, ‘Is this worth a grown man’s time?’
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it’s not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we’ll come to trust and respect them more.
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
The more I’m dedicated to this work, the more I’m able to satisfy my deep need to create. And that’s a pretty good thing. If you take half-decent care of yourself, that can propel you on into productive later years.
A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
I don’t find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
I’ve always believed that. I’m not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. ‘Here’s who we’ve got. Let’s put them in the right spots where they can be productive.’
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
When I see people wasting their hours doing nothing productive, nothing to contribute to the world, nothing to build relationships, it makes me sad. Actually, it makes me mad. I want to scream, ‘Wake up!’.
I absorbed a lot from my dad. He’s very disciplined, very productive, and uses his time well. Those are all things you want when you compete.
Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes – not in institutions.
You’re allowed to have gravitas when you’ve got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you’re attractive and younger – or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you’re capable of productive thought.
I hate it, but a popout is the same as a strikeout. It’s a matter of productive at-bats, a matter of how you do it.
I don’t have a definition for depression. I’m productive, and that’s not a sign of depression, right? And I don’t have weeks where I don’t leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
When it’s a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you’re riffing off other people’s ideas, that actually can be productive.
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
I don’t know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.
You always wanna make sure that you’re not burnt out. But I feel like I’ve been able to find the right balance of still staying fresh in games and still being able to be productive.
Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can’t stop work for even five minutes or we’ll fall behind: the idea that if we don’t take breaks, we’re being more productive.
If women’s choices – such as taking time off to rear children – make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys’ behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?
Every morning I tell myself, ‘Today has to be productive’ – and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
People who draw tend to think they’re craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it’s not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it’s faster and easier to start with the computer.
Don’t keep your own schedule – that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.
It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Worrying about the past or the future isn’t productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.
I feel responsible; I feel I’ve got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.
The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.
The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting ‘face time’ are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.
We’ll invest in infrastructure and productive infrastructure like railroads and ports and bridges and schools, things that will have a return, economic return or social return.
The DREAMers who are in my state are some of the most ambitious, creative, going to be productive businesspeople and doctors. That’s why I’m proud of being the first governor to make sure the DREAMers get access to college education.
Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.
I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future.
I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.
It’s productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can’t teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.
Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty about future prospects.
