#productive

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example. ↗

— Peter Singer

#counterproductive #example #give #giving #likely

I want to be asexual, because then I could be more productive. But not reproductive. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #productive #reproductive #funny

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. ↗

— Diane Wood

#constitution #debate #dynamism #end #evolution

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#adversaries #both #bush #bush administration #certainly

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#american people #among #best #entrepreneurs #great

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#ask #care #during #expensive #fact

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. ↗

— Charles Evers

#i #i believe #lazy #makes #unproductive

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. ↗

— Earl Browder

#conditions #conflict #continue #expand #forces

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#changing #chronically #devoted #energy #find

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#cheesy #contribution #hope #i #make