Quotes About Productive

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

Sometimes when we anticipate meeting with someone who is difficult to work with, a tape starts playing in our heads. "Why do I have to have another meeting with this person? I'll just try to get through it." These kinds of thoughts will likely lead to a self fulfilling prophecy of an unproductive and painful experience.

What is true of asset managers is true of lawyers. Willem Buiter, former Chief Economist for Citigroup, puts it aptly: the first third of lawyers produce the immense social value we know as the 'rule of law'. The next third are working on legal disputes that are essentially zero-sum games: each side over-invests in winning the tournament and so they are socially useless....The final third of lawyers are socially predatory: they are employed in the legal scams that fleece the productive.

A leadership community is spiritually safe and prepared for a long-term and productive life of ministry only when what is important to God is not just theologically important to them but also functionally important.

fully three-quarters of life's great & bounteous cornucopia consists of parasites, battening furtively on the flesh of the few productive species that grace creation.

Visibility politics are compatible with capitalism's relentless appetite for new markets and with the most self-satisfying ideologies of the United States: you are welcome here as long as you are productive. The production and reproduction of visibility are part of the labor of the reproduction of capitalism.