Firing someone who is investigating you is a counterproductive strategy.
Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive. . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American
In effect, Gore is unwittingly characterizing a large segment of the US population as the next 'Willie Horton. ' This is unfortunate and counterproductive to any dialogue between those who 'believe' and those who don't.
I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.
The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1. 5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.
Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
Vision without implementation is counterproductive.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
I say that the United States of America is a unique experiment in history. I believe in American exceptionalism. I wasn't for sending ground forces into Libya. It would have been counterproductive, but we are an inspiration to these people. I know because I've looked them in the eyes, and they looked at me. They look to America for inspiration and leadership.
And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.
I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
I thought of telling him that if it wasn't for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would've been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive.
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
