Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Rick Warren
Charles Kettering
Napoleon Bonaparte
Theodore Roosevelt
Ellen Glasgow
Abraham Lincoln
All authors
Today's birthdays
1900 - Hal Borland
1880 - B. C. Forbes
1944 - George Lucas
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg
1944 - Francesca Annis
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Saint
Athlete
Activist
Cartoonist
Chef
Architect
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Productive Quotes
Productive Quotes
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
Ann Coulter
Debate
Argument
Every
Lunch
Back
Characterized
Attempt
Sort
Any
Little
Your
Hard
Productive
Bring
Slavery
One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.
Ann Leckie
Work
Matter
Tea
Research
Awesome
About
Writer
Textile
Ants
Being
Anything
Chocolate
Production
Productive
Nearly
Things
I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
Ara Parseghian
You
Think
Damn
Says
Give
Were
Efficient
Anybody
Productive
Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
People
World
Made
Drive
Resources
Markets
Out
Possible
Rapid
Rapid Growth
More
Open
Demand
Countries
Economy
Global
Wagon
Subsistence
Productive
Using
Activities
World Economy
Growth
Pull
Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
Arancha Gonzalez
World
Thrive
Pay
Increase
Markets
Focused
More
Tend
Higher
Counterparts
Like
Sub-Saharan
Sub-Saharan Africa
Wages
Than
Manage
Africa
Places
Productive
Productivity
Exporting
Even
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
Ayelet Waldman
Creative
Focus
Three
Before
Energy
State
Type
Months
Mood
Characteristic
Clarity
Detail
Never
Had
Attention
Wrote
Known
Sublime
Six
Experienced
Productive
Creative Energy
Novels
Elevated
I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
Azim Premji
Time
Car
Employees
Spending
Hours
Traffic
Huge
Office
Sitting
Should
Productive
Waste
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank
Life
People
Made
Increase
Progressive
More
Only
Economic
Primarily
Most
Periods
Clinton
American
Tax
Tax Code
Tax Increase
Which
American Life
Taxes
Productive
Code
Nearly
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
Barry Commoner
Food
World
Wealth
Space
Doctors
Earth
Machines
Would
Above
Through
Pole
Most
Opposite
Encompass
North
North Pole
Poor
View
Teachers
Productive
Engineers
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
Ben Stiller
Work
Best
Nervous
Wind
Energy
Unless
Way
Best Way
Postman
Something
Lot
Up
Want
Productive
Gardener
I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
Ben Zobrist
Best
You
Together
Details
Put
Powerful
Arm
Most
Most Powerful
Well
Very
Any
Going
Little
Productive
Fastest
Player
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
Bernard Cornwell
Time
Book
Writing
Mind
Research
Others
One Book
Though
More
Written
Like
Fairly
Sort
Stick
Doing
Being
While
Productive
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
Bernie Sanders
Dangerous
Financial
Deficit
Sector
Would
Percent
Similar
More
Invest
Had
Fee
Over
Economy
Reduce
Years
Encourage
Than
Wall
Wall Street
Establishing
Gambling
Productive
Billion
Street
Level
Speculation
I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.
Billie Eilish
Try
Lyrics
Head
Ideas
Always
Video
Productive
Many
Designs
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
Billy Corgan
Me
Band
Nothing
Changes
Everybody
Definitely
Responsible
Seed
Some
Come
Ideas
Looks
Coming
Up
Very
Productive
Chord
Basic
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Billy Corgan
Me
Long
Too
Despite
Strip
Am
Been
Anybody
Influential
Wants
Productive
Away
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
Bob Corker
Life
Time
Man
Worth
Focus
Oneself
Being
Happening
Ask
Your
Productive
Grown
Things
No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.
Bob Menendez
Government
You
Matter
Salt
Back
Slice
Spend
States
Give
More
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Economically
New
Forces
How
Limiting
New Jersey
Families
Than
American
Subsidize
Which
Productive
Less
Deduction
Even
Ever
Jersey
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
Brad Henry
Good
Opportunity
Nurturing
Values
Good Jobs
Our
Minds
Oklahoma
Jobs
Citizens
Give
Only
Potential
Reach
God-Given
Children
Them
Full
Productive
Right
Here
Strengthening
Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool with strangers for the companionship. But the most productive members of each community are professional operators, making available their homes or cars as a way to earn or supplement a living.
Brad Stone
People
Car
Community
Strangers
Living
Earn
Meet
Way
Airbnb
Members
Some
Supplement
Drivers
Hosts
New
Opening
Most
Making
Bedrooms
New People
Up
Available
Spare
Use
Productive
Certainly
Professional
Companionship
Each
Homes
There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.
Bruce Babbitt
Me
Saw
Say
Those
Kind
Clear
Tension
Between
Economically
Like
Because
Reduce
Timber
Forest
Cut
Productive
Who
Thing
Basic
Here
I was very productive as a senator for my state.
Carol Moseley Braun
State
Very
Senator
Productive
I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I'm not, because I have energy at night, but I'm not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.
Caroline Ghosn
Try
Energy
Think
Focused
Because
Get
Owl
Done
Realized
Used
Productive
Things
Night
Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
Cass Sunstein
People
Anxiety
Will
Miserable
Constant
Having
Know
Go
Accountable
Mean
Held
Productive
Right
Things
There will be new businesses that will digitally enable the planning and consumption of passenger and goods movement to be more efficient, enjoyable, productive, safer, cleaner, and cheaper. That could mean everything from maintaining vehicle fleets to remote monitoring.
Cathy Engelbert
Will
Everything
More
Could
Cleaner
Cheaper
Consumption
Vehicle
Maintaining
New
Goods
Remote
Safer
Enable
Passenger
Efficient
Movement
Mean
Planning
Productive
Businesses
Enjoyable
Monitoring
I think Apple is a productive cash machine.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Think
Machine
Cash
Productive
Apple
Load more quotes
No more productive quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Always
America
American