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.
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.
Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.
I want to be as productive as possible, however that is, as productive as I can be for the team the rest of my career.
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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.
It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.
Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.
Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.
That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.
It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.