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“You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.”

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Author:Mary Garden

“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.”

“Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.”

“Creativity produces productivity.”

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Author:Mike Vance

“Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.”

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Author:Adam Grant

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”

“The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.”

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Author:Jane Pauley

“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”

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Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.”

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.”

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Author:Jack Welch