A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety. " If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.
People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.
In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.
When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. . . Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. . . to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.
It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.