Quotes About Productive

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Every day when I wake up and head out for chores, I'm struck by the beauty we enjoy on our farm. Based on visitors' comments, that's a shared awareness. Not one of our doors has a skull and crossbones. We want visitors to be struck not by what we've done, but rather by how we've caressed this beautiful niche of God's creation into a productive and profoundly inspiring place.

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful.

Wow. Quite unusual. Narcissistic, split personality, able to live in one world as a respected, productive member of society while spending his off-hours plotting the next kill. It'll be hard to nail this guy. Unless." Allie said, "Unless he makes a mistake, right?

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Yet in Germany no less than the United States, the political meaning of genocide has never been widely understood. Both populations have, for the most part, denounced genocide as a racist act, but neither has recognized that it was also a productive one, whose outcome is the nation-states in which they live.

Apparently a 'go-getter.'" "What does that mean?" "I think it means he was an asshole, just an enthusiastic one who did his job and got things done.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

I like a man to do something with his ten fingers. I do not like the useless creatures who are always self-important or agitators. A fatuous breed!

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.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.

The second imperative for transitioning leaders, then, is to identify key stakeholders and begin to forge productive working relationships with them. Here, too, there are two traps to avoid: focusing on vertical relationships and mistaking titles for authority.

Today's monopolization of affluence by a rentier class avoiding taxes and public regulation by buying control of government is the same problem that confronted the classical economists. Their struggle to create a fairer economy produced the tools most appropriate to understand how today's economies are polarizing while becoming less productive.

But understanding the role of the public sector in the co-production of economic output allows a more profound perspective. Taxation is the means by which economic actors pay the public sector for its contribution to the productive process. The orthodox model claims that reducing the share of taxation in overall economic output will tend to strengthen growth. If taxation is used productively by an active public sector, the opposite can be the case.

When people talk about training, they generally mean taking an amorphous mind and shaping it into something. It is the sort of thing that goes on at universities that are not yet in possession of high-quality students. It is not the sort of thing that should go on at serious centers of discovery. Mentoring, on the other hand, is productive, necessary, and enjoyable.

we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. The difference is this: A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour.

The record seems to suggest that a society begins to rely heavily on leisure-and especially on passive leisure-only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.

neither of them has yet learned to accept hard necessity without making it worse by regret. That's a vital lesson, Miri. Regret is not productive. Nor is guilt, nor grief.

It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.

That it is impossible to be useful and sad.