A Quote by Albert Einstein

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
German - Physicist
March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

Robin S. Sharma

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

Paul A. Baran

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

Erwin Schrodinger

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Ludwig von Mises

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

Mary Parker Follett

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

Catherine Stock

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

Julie Plec

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

Harvey Cox

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

Paul Klee

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

Noam Chomsky

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Stefan Kanfer

I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

Dan Ariely

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

Patricia Churchland

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