Top 1200 Productive Work Quotes & Sayings

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.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

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

I don't physically have the strength to be productive at work following a three-hour sleep. I can't do that.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

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.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

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.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

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.

People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

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.

The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

Every summer I kept figuring out what I needed to work on to be productive the next season.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

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.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

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.

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

If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.

We can do things and not be the best. Maybe you were late to work but by god at least you got to work. You may not have the most productive day but well bloody done for getting out from under the duvet.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

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.

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.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

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.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.

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.

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

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.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

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.

If you're trying to stay productive, stop and think, 'Are my meetings actually productive, or are we merely having meetings for meetings' sake?'

I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

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.

Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world.

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.

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

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

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.