#productivity

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#productivity #motivational

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#productivity #economics

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#anything #been #brutal #education #fueled

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#capital #depend #down #heading #human

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come. ↗

— John Hutton

#challenge #china #collective #come #continuing

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. ↗

— Major Owens

#cannot #education #excitement #get #go

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#broadband #businesses #contributed #data #deployment

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. ↗

— Roy Romer

#classroom #critical #experience #faculty #getting

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. ↗

— James Sinegal

#along #class #disenchanted #disenfranchised #dynamics