Quotes of: Unproductive Keyword

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Gilbert Parker

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors

Blake L. Higginbotham

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Charles Evers

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

David Wilmot

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

Don Draper

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

A Short Stay in Hell

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Olga Kurylenko

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Daniel Hannan

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

Peter Mayle

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

Zalmay Khalilzad

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

... until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty...

Swann's Way

You should break away from unproductive routines that do not positively benefit you or make your life better.

What Makes You Great?

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

David F. Houston

I’m not an unproductive liar—I’m a productive fiction writer. I make stuff. I make stuff up. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Sean Paul

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

Gary Rohrmayer

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Fran Lebowitz