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«Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.»
«I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
battle of, battle of Hastings, battle of Waterloo, dealings, de Gaulle, Hastings, productive, quotations, tactful, The Battle, the Battle of, The Battle of Waterloo, Trafalgar, Waterloo
«Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause»
«In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.»
Author: Rupert Murdoch
| About:
Motivation
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engage, excitement, motivate, motivating, productive
«It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, judicious, operations, productive, the capital, The Industry
«No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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activities, assigning, deploy, deployed, farming, full time, gathering, maintenance, one-woman, One on One, PER, productive, raising, simultaneously, suburban, temple, tent, weaving
«It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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applied, Boys and Girls, founding, productive, public libraries, public library, the founding
«In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
gestation, loafing, producers, productive, skip, The producer
«I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
compliments, despised, flatteries, holy day, pleasing, productive, sermon, Wise Men
«Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.»
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