A Quote by Erich Fromm

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Erich Fromm

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Either Love Other Productive Spheres

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Erich Fromm
American - Psychologist
March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980

The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

Adam Smith

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.

Erich Fromm

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

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.

Mick Farren

If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

Karan Bajaj

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.

Michael Hudson

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.

Buster Posey

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

Young Jeezy

You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.

Ernie J Zelinski

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Ayn Rand

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.

Brother Ali

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.

Tim Ferriss

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.

Markus Persson

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

Michael Hudson

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.