Top 100 Quotes About Productive Work
#1. Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#2. Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.
Ayn Rand
#3. All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.
Richard Branson
#4. 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
#5. Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.
Ayn Rand
#6. All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work - and that which is its source - as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..
Ayn Rand
#7. Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)
Randy Alcorn
#8. If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.
Ayn Rand
#9. In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.
Walt Disney
#10. Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!
Archibald Marwizi
#11. I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: How can I get in on that?
Dave Barry
#12. One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.
Ann Leckie
#13. Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
Erich Fromm
#14. In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women's household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied.
Gabrielle Palmer
#15. Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, "The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want" (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).
H.W. Charles
#16. For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.
Ann Coulter
#17. Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.
Dennis Prager
#18. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Always evaluate and determine the product of your life
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#20. The only way to make life fruitful is by being productive
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#21. I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.
Jorgen Leth
#22. We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#23. The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#24. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.
Elissa Schappell
#25. Sadly like cancer, we may never fully find a way to STOP bullying. But we can continue to work diligently to help empower children to rise above its despair and lead them to live healthy productive lives in their future.
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#26. I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
Vinton Cerf
#27. Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
Daniel Suarez
#28. Commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.
Charles Fourier
#29. The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.
Ronald Reagan
#30. Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life
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#31. Effectiveness in life is a measure of how many products you are able to produce in life
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#32. I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry
#34. To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time
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#35. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
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#36. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.
Michael Harris
#38. When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
Stellan Skarsgard
#39. Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.
Douglas Conant
#40. Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time
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#41. It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
Peter Drucker
#42. Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
and effective in their work.
Bruce Perens
#43. The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
Peter Drucker
#44. A transaction between joy and task-fulfilment is much more productive than between money and work
Priyavrat Thareja
#45. If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
David Brin
#46. A life without concrete product is a meaningless one
Sunday Adelaja
#47. You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did
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#48. Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.
Paul A. Baran
#49. I have gotten disturbed at ... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.
Jamie Dimon
#50. No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
Catherine McAuley
#52. If human beings are in general too irrational and selfish to work out the challenges of social organization in a productive and positive manner, then they are far too irrational and selfish to be given the monopolistic violence of state power, or vote for their leaders.
Stefan Molyneux
#53. Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
Adrian Grenier
#54. Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
Shawn Achor
#55. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
Abraham Lincoln
#56. To get an effective product, you need to find your calling
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#57. For instance, why do we still work eight hours a day, 50 weeks a year, when we're twice as productive as we were 50 years ago?
Jacob Lund Fisker
#58. Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.
John Wooden
#59. You need to pursue purpose and time to be productive
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#60. Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).
Rick Riordan
#61. And then, if I die anytime soon, at least they'll be able to say that I led a productive life and did all my work on time. I may be dead, but I'll be up to date in Space, Time, and Motion.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#62. Life's product should be made intentionally and consciously
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#63. I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.
J.C. Lillis
#64. The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects ... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.
Ronald Reagan
#65. The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product
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#66. Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.
Rebecca M. Blank
#67. Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
Tim Ferriss
#68. I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#69. I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
Amy Ray
#71. It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.
Randall Wright
#73. The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen Covey
#74. Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.
Russell Peters
#75. Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.
Peter F. Drucker
#76. I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.
Charles Bass
#77. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
Linda Chavez
#78. No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
Joyce Brothers
#79. The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
Charles Stross
#80. Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.
Judith Orloff
#81. Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life
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#82. But the sin of Adam and Eve brought about a new kind of work as part of the punishment for sin. Work was now more difficult, painful, and less productive than it should have been. It brought sweat, fatigue, and toil never intended for us by our Creator.
John Hart
#83. Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.
Bob Parsons
#84. A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.
Charles Hayes
#85. Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily
Sunday Adelaja
#86. I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#88. You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.
Ernie J Zelinski
#89. Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
Jay Parini
#90. If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.
Karan Bajaj
#92. My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.
Charles Koch
#93. The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.
Mark Hurst
#94. Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair
#95. I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
Andrew Weil
#96. If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.
Richard Hamming
#97. Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive
Aliko Dangote
#98. Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive
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#99. I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
Lars Peter Hansen
#100. Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product
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