Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.
In traditional TV, it's very hard to have the luxury of banking all your scripts and getting everything in a row, but it does make it very easy, and it's very productive and beneficial and you learn as you're going.
I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.
Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
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.
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.