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  • It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

  • There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

    Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.94, Harmony
  • When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

    Blow   Encounters   Arms  
    Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2211, e-artnow
  • A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

    Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
  • Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

    Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com
  • What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

    Nice   Fall   Maturity  
  • 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.

  • Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275
  • I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

  • When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

    Lunch   Slavery   Littles  
  • 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.

  • Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  • Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

  • Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

    Self   Answers   Loathing  
    "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.
  • You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

    Mean   May   Steps  
    "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
  • I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress.

    Stress   Thinking   Years  
    Source: www.edgemagazine.net
  • All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

    Michael Lewis (2011). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”, p.258, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

  • Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.

    Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.74, Transaction Publishers
  • Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.

    Jobs   Writing   Fishing  
  • Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

    Sleep   Night   Eight  
  • Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

  • I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself.

    Kids   Lines   Ass  
    "Back to School with Walter Martin". Interview with Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.
  • Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

  • When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  • Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are likely to be the most tactful advisors, the most diplomatic officials, the most effective negotiators, the most electable politicians, the most productive salespersons, the most successful teachers, and the most insightful therapists.

  • I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

    "Beyond Our Ken: A Guide to the Battle for London". Book by Andrew Forrester, Robin Pauley, and Stewart Lansley, 1985.
  • If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.142, Open Road Media
  • In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

    Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”
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