“Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.” IfsDoeRealFactsViewsWasteMindsetProductiveWasting TimeLeisureHobbiesFree TimeFamily Time Author:Shawn Achor
“A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.” PeopleFirstsMadeUseShowsAnimalWasteEnvironmentalProductiveExcessFeedingHierarchyStewardshipFormationReductionContributingRecyclingLandfillsMethaneFood Waste Author:Carol Browner
“I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.” WayTryingEyeMovingGuyEnergyFocusWasteForgivingLegsSpendingHorribleProductive Author:Augusten Burroughs
“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."” WayLosesLossRoomsResponsibilityMinutesTalentAmountWasteCorporateEmployeeProductiveFamily Responsibility Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.” PeopleKnowsWayActionOpportunityDecisionSuccessfulWasteTasksProductiveAppropriateWasting TimeSuccessful PeopleEvaluateIndecision Book:Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.” ThinkingFeelsWritingUsedAbilityCreativeWasteRanProductiveWasting TimeReally Cool Author:Lena Dunham
“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingGamesEconomyCuttingCenturyTaxesWasteProsperityProductiveGoods21st CenturyTax CutsScythes Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)” MeanPurposeEnergyWealthStudyWasteBehaviorCapitalismConnectionsEducatedIdeologyIdiotOperationsProductivePredicamentsDeployment Author:James Howard Kunstler
“If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.” IfsWayUseLightTogetherScienceFallEnergyNationsGoalImaginationSunImagineWindHard WorkSucceedWastePercentStreamsProductiveWorking TogetherEfficientTechnologicalRushingHarness Author:Jimmy Carter
“Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.” LooksMadeScienceNationsLevelsResultsEffortProgressDangerMaterialsCivilizationDiseaseWasteCapacityRaisedCastsProductiveSubstitutesChemistryConquestExhaustionChemistBountyGreat Progress Author:Calvin Coolidge