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“It's always a bit risky, when you put yourself out there with somebody in a collaboration, but I think we learn things every single time, and we come out of it with a new perspective on writing because everyone's process is different. Unfortunately we don't always get to spend time in the studio with those artists - oftentimes it's just sending files online. But both can be liberating and productive in their own way. Some of the best collaborations happen when you're all in a room together.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But the thing is this is destructive. This is discriminatory. And what they're telling themselves is they're making a much more peaceful environment. "We are creating a much more conducive and productive and peaceful environment," when they're not. They're suppressing opinion. They are inflicting their own world view and demanding that it be agreed with and acceded to. And if it's not, you get fired.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.”

People Important Age Past Growth Glory Unhappy Consistent Productive Dissatisfaction

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There was very polite, gentlemanly, and - and - and lady-like push-back on issues on both sides. Chuck Schumer continues to push this idea of this $30 billion tunnel under the Hudson River, um, that Donald Trump very politely pushed back on. But I thought it was cordial and productive. The president is not giving up on the wall, and he's certainly not giving up on border security.”

Giving President Security Wall Giving Up Productive Polite Not Giving Up Chuck Gentlemanly

Author:Mick Mulvaney

“The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new - the feeling of being on top of a hill and having a clear view. But most of the time, doing mathematics for me is like being on a long hike with no trail and no end in sight. I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.”

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Author:Maryam Mirzakhani

“My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and I'm watching a movie that answers all the questions that it raises, it's a film that bores me. In the same way, if I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.”

Book Feelings Film Moving Reading Audience Productive Wasting Time Leaving Me

Author:Michael Haneke

“When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.”

Long Sometimes School Term Community Hours Poverty Support Teacher Violence Students College Extraordinary Long Term Productive Best Teacher Dysfunctional Family Social Service Enrichment

Author:Arne Duncan

“We are all living longer lives now, so this extra longevity gives us second, third or fourth chances to succeed at something or change careers. It is great to think big, but the formula for success in our time is also to THINK LONG. There is a huge waste of talent out there because people think they are 'too old' or 'too late'. Actually, if you take the span of productive life from 20 to 80, at 50 you still have 50% of productive years ahead of you.”

People Thinking Giving Long Chance Talent Succeed Extras Productive Longevity Think Big

Author:Tom Butler-Bowdon

“I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.”

Feelings Guilt Productive

Author:Pieter Hugo

“The key demand for me from the public across the 34 provinces is to transform the state into an instrument of the rule of law, transform the economy into a productive system and change the education system.”

Economy Productive Rule Of Law Education System

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth so we can have an economic system that can turn our natural wealth into a productive system. We need services, because poverty reduction cannot take place without effective citizenship.”

School Growth Natural Wealth Poverty Economic Youth High School Productive Graduates Citizenship

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“Typically to get toward a productive outcome in negotiation you have to make the initial move of genuinely exploring someone's model. If you don't, it is unlikely that they will be willing to explore yours. And if you genuinely explore and understand theirs - without judging it - they will be willing to explore yours. Once they reach that point, they are primed to explore the productive combination of both models and won't be as obsessed about trying to make sure their model prevails.”

Trying Moving Judging Obsessed Productive Exploring Negotiation

Author:Roger Martin

“We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.”

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Author:Daniel Lopatin

“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.”

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Author:Paul Reiser

“I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us. Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.”

People Thinking Different Problem Despair Unique Productive Spending Time

Author:Akhil Sharma

“When people are in a workplace where it's possible to organize and engage in labor actions, that's how they fight, and it can be very effective. When people are not in that situation, they fight in other ways. They fight in the marketplace. One need only notice that there's been a meaningful shift in where people are over the last thirty, or fifty years from traditional productive industries toward a kind of work that involves circulation of capital and products, and toward unemployment. People who are in that situation are unlikely to fight somewhere else.”

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Author:Joshua Clover

“I don't want to overvalue Donald Trump as some historical rupture, and to admit that I do think Trump is an indication of a fairly profound change. But the change started a while ago, and it has taken a while to appear. Global capital, particularly western capital, has been in decline since the late 60s and early 70s. The softness appeared in the 60s, the profit rate fell off the table in 1972 - 73, and there have been very uneven recoveries. This has been an ongoing weakening of the productive economy of accumulation at a global scale, of capital's capacity to expand.”

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Author:Joshua Clover

“I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive workplaces if we knew how to speak to each other about difficult issues and if we were more able to listen to and learn from diverse points of view.”

Speak Difficult Decision Point Of View Productive Diverse Workplace

Author:Mary C. Gentile

“I think that people still naturally want to be part of a team and participate in the success and achievement of a group effort. So we tend to be enthusiastic and productive - and even loyal. I believe that there are very few people who purposefully try to undermine the efforts of their organization. When people do act against the objectives of a change initiative, it's often because they genuinely believe it's not the right thing for the company to do. You could argue that it's a form of misguided loyalty.”

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Author:James A. Champy

“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.”

“Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.”

Men Social Realizing Business Failing Men And Women Organization Theater Corporations Productive Social Organization Productive Life

Author:Lester Bangs

“I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.”

Kind Tension Destructive Productive

Author:Shirley Manson

“The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.”

Has Beens Made States Shows Productive Revenue Payment Treasury

Author:James Monroe

“By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.”

“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.”

Looks Night Late Entertainment Productive

Author:Rachel Nichols

“I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.”

People Productive Surround Decency Good Will

Author:Ted Nugent

“Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“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.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.”

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”

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Author:Jose Saramago

“I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.”

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Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.”

Political Politics Organization Organized Productive Conspiracy Unproductive

Author:Joseph Sobran

“It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.”

Justice Responsibility Evolve Productive Civilized Unpredictable

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.”

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Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

“Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.”

Economy Areas Productive Expertise Niche Profile

Author:Leigh Steinberg

“A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.”

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Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.”

Thinking Happens Able Form Ultimate Productive Songwriting

Author:Taylor Swift

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.”

People Needs Government Jobs Technology Citizens Training Independent Investment Productive Disability Housing Facility Disabled Transportation People With Disabilities Job Training Independent Living

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.”

Source: A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

“The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.”

Giving Valuable Generous Productive Serving Prosperous Enthusiastic Joyous Cooperatives

Author:William Arthur Ward

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