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• Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Ice Age 2 - Entrevista con John Leguizamo (Sid)". Entrevista con Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

  James William Benson

  People, Needs, Machines

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• It is opposition that makes us productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Oposición

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Soldier, Firsts, Etc

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• It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

  Alan Watts

  Weed, Taken, Numbers

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• En el fondo sólo hay dos formas puras de legislación: la productiva y la redistributiva.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Two, Legislation, Form

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• Dado que la reputación va por detrás de los logros, cabe esperar que las personas alcancen el cenit de su reputación mucho después del cenit de su rendimiento productivo.

  Richard Posner

  Past, People, Achievement

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• Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

  Niels Bohr

  Essence, Tasks, Way

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• Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

  Alfie Kohn

  Thinking, Competition, Employee

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

  David Shapiro

  Believe, Rooms, Naked

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• When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.

  Brenda Laurel

  Artist, People, Everyday

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press

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• Parece que la dirección de Google se ha dado cuenta de que es más barato, más feliz y más productivo cuidar de sus empleados y crear un entorno de trabajo positivo que achicharrarlos, hacer que teman el futuro y enviarlos a las autopistas y carreteras de California en busca de un Taco Bell para comer.

  Joe McNally

  Almuerzo, California, Google

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• The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Animal, Suffering, Goes On

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• Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

  Douglas Crockford

  Productive Life, Challenges, Different

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

  Debora Spar

  Way, Investment, Drains

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Hemos tenido una pérdida de base manufacturera y una pérdida de parte de nuestra capacidad productiva que puede llenarse con los empleos de cuello verde del mañana. Pero esto solo ocurrirá si reconocemos la escala y el alcance tanto del reto como de la oportunidad.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Loss, Opportunity

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.

  Kristina Schroder

  Responsibility, People, Might

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• I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep.

  Mandana Dayani

  Sleep, Six, Hours

  Fuente: money.cnn.com

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• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be  tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

  Richard Hamming

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

  Seth Godin

  Giving, Leader

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• Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

  Shawn Achor

  Brain, Stressed, Negative

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• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stars, Valentine, Voice

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• I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  Economic Models, Understanding, Use

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• Ante la escasez de tiempo, apretamos las tareas en los recovecos de nuestro calendario, dejando cada vez menos tiempo para alternar entre ellas. El resultado es que cada vez somos menos productivos justo cuando más lo necesitamos.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  Salir, tareas, necesidades

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