Quotes About Unproductive

Well, this day was a total waste of make-up.

There are people in the world who sometimes waste their time trying to fix the thing which is not broken.

thought. Lumpish. And the word came to me: feckless.

When not working, my days are lazy.

As much use as tits on a fish.

Manipulative coping, however, is an unproductive cycle.

until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

boondoggles

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

It's the little moments that trigger some of our most outsized and unproductive responses:

In the larger scheme of things, the modern complaint against state intervention echoes the old English fear of social leveling, which was said to encourage the unproductive. In its later incarnation, government assistance is said to undermine the American dream. Wait. Undermine whose American dream?

Indeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. This is the basic reason why the privileged elite in every society has always consisted—and, I submit, will always consist—of members who perform unproductive services under one form or another. Whatever the title under which this elite may receive its share, this share will never be that of worker's wage—even if, as is possible, it may be called by that name.

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.