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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Alex Campbell
Quality
Progress
Prosperity
Power
Profit
Paper
Rather
More
Only
More Power
Excellence
Magnitude
Simply
Come
Concerned
Than
Size
Which
Convertible
Mean
Productivity
Standards
Consequence
Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.
Amy Morin
Life
Work
Time
You
Yourself
People
Joy
Impossible
Rich
Live
Once
About
Give
Only
Schedules
Over
Goof
Most
Without
Permission
Doing
Off
Left
Forget
Leisure
Happens
While
Full
Full Life
Productivity
Fill
Things
Being stuck in a rut can kill your creativity, stress you out, and zap your productivity. Doing the same thing over and over again causes your days to blend together.
Amy Morin
You
Together
Creativity
Stress
Same Thing
Out
Rut
Stuck
Blend
Over
Days
Doing
Causes
Same
Being
Again
Your
Productivity
Thing
Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.
Andrew Weil
Light
Mind
State
Sunlight
Simulate
Daylight
Hours
Also
Known
Boxes
Affect
May
Productivity
Help
Therapy
Uses
Sleep
Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.
Arancha Gonzalez
Better
Sections
Jobs
Distributed
More
Economy
Improving
Across
Fortunate
Paying
Productivity
Less
Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
Arancha Gonzalez
Revolution
Latin
Latin America
Seeds
Driven
Share
Greater
Fertilizer
Green
America
Did
Modern
African
Irrigation
Gains
Asia
Use
Farmers
Productivity
Many
Techniques
Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
Technology
Power
First
Increased
Late
Out
Jobs
Threatened
Put
Since
Century
Productivity
Ever
Humans
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
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Bob Ney
Writing
Independence
Reading
Bears
Name
Blind
His
Braille
Louis
Literacy
Dots
Created
Productivity
Code
Brings
Raised
The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
Boris Johnson
Superior
Become
Able
Unbeatable
Absolutely
Advantage
Over
Territory
German
Gain
Which
Means
Productivity
Euro
Whole
Eurozone
Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.
Caroline Ghosn
Time
Complicated
Tools
Resources
Easily
Habits
Through
Combination
Most
Make
Manageable
Your
Productivity
Right
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown
Money
Slow
Down
Our
Economic
Main
Had
Main Thing
Institution
Deal
Making
Go
Off
Behaviour
Psychiatric
Anybody
As Much Money
Place
Them
Much
Productivity
Stranger
Who
Now
Right
Thing
Things
Shipping middle-class jobs to China, or hollowing them out with machines, is a win for smart managers and their shareholders. We call the result higher productivity. But, looked at through the lens of middle-class jobs, it is a loss.
Chrystia Freeland
Win
Result
Smart
Machines
Out
Jobs
Higher
Through
Shareholders
Looked
Call
Loss
Shipping
Managers
China
Them
Lens
Productivity
Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.
Dennis Muilenburg
You
Will
Add
Earnings
Our
See
Bottom
Bottom Line
Investment
Line
Continue
Reflected
Productivity
Margins
A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.
Derek Sivers
Home
Family
Spend
Focused
Hours
Does
Go
Go Home
Office
Wonders
Prefer
Then
Working
Your
Productivity
Now
Present
Zone
The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.
Dinesh Paliwal
Education
Innovation
Will
Through
Advantage
Countries
Come
Real
Productivity
Who
Companies
Differentiate
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration.
Dominic Raab
Voting
Threshold
Country
Action
Strike
Administration
Introducing
Would
Gains
Infrastructure
Productivity
Billions
Rail
Save
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
Edmund Phelps
Half
Late
France
Rates
More
More Or Less
Dropping
Countries
Major
Most
Altogether
Falling
Loss
Began
Germany
After
Dynamism
Productivity
Less
Growth
Britain
High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.
Edward Conard
Result
Increasingly
Jobs
Supervise
Wage
Workers
Choose
Productivity
Lucrative
Serve
Growth
By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Better
Opportunities
Will
Living
Increasing
Able
More
Becoming
Mexicans
Offer
Improve
Standard
Productivity
Competitive
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
Work
Education
Innovation
Immigration
Has-Been
One Thing
Seem
Rate
Brutal
Schedule
Investment
Mostly
Been
Historically
America
The One Thing
Anything
Fueled
Productivity
Growth
Thing
Growth Rate
We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
Frans van Houten
Change
Culture
Innovation
Focus
Transformation
Our
Ways
Ensure
Scale
Diversification
Rather
Simplify
Step
Advantage
Sharpen
Became
Years
Huge
Up
Than
Improve
Bureaucratic
Hangover
Size
After
Customer
Working
Productivity
Internal
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Competitiveness
The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.
Frans van Houten
Software
Part
Toward
Demand
Partners
Shift
Improve
Done
Productivity
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka
You
Before
Able
Never
Were
Being
Productivity
Things
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Fred Brooks
Technology
Management
Simplicity
Promises
Single
Reliability
Development
Within
Itself
Decade
Improvement
Either
Which
Productivity
Even
Technique
Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
Gabe Newell
Game
Apps
Photoshop
Bears
Between
Around
How
Traditional
Forest
Very
Difference
Wandering
Really
Should
Productivity
Enhance
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