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Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler

Well, I'm nothing if not strangely beautiful but a little unproductive. — Bella Forrest

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

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " — Henry Rosovsky

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. — Brigid Schulte

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

If we can limit the unproductive interactions, we will be able to better focus on productive ones. — Rachel G. Scott

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

A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable. — Stephanie Lahart

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way. — Andy Andrews

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

Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw. — Victoria Schwab

Until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty ... — Marcel Proust

But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection. — Robert Kegan

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

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. — Neal A. Maxwell

Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive. — Archibald Marwizi

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. — Mahathir Mohamad

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors — Blake L. Higginbotham

Without proper rest during the weekend our new week could be unproductive. — Sunday Adelaja

If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either. — James Johnson

For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person. — Mike Michalowicz

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. — Kerry Gleeson

No day is wholly unproductive of good. — Hesiod

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

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

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith? ... — Thomas Malthus

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

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness. — Elizabeth Thornton

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work. — Billy Graham

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. — Lois Wyse

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions
some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive
to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. — Elizabeth Peters

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. — Charles Evers

In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues. — Donald G. Reinertsen

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. — Angela Davis

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else. — Blake Butler

During the times we think we're being "unproductive," the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow. — Martha Beck

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized. — Steve Pavlina

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

God's grace does not make you lazy and unproductive. On the contrary, it makes you labor more abundantly for His glory. — Joseph Prince

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. — Walter E. Williams

You don't need to prove the existence of aliens.
That's unproductive, unless we make a bet on it. — Toba Beta

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. — Timothy Ferriss