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
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A rate-hike response by the ECB would not have achieved much [and would have been] counter-productive in slowing European growth.
Alison Cottrell
We've had productive discussions with them and we will continue to do so. We elect not to share the details of those discussions.
Jay Horwitz
I think you have to play like that against a team like that. They are a physical team, and you have to rise to the occasion. Coach has been harping on it all year that when we compete and play physical, that's when we're productive. That's just the way we have to play to be a good team.
David Carpentier
The two sides had detailed and productive discussions. There was greater clarity on the issues under discussion. Progress has been made.
Navtej Sarna
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell
Flutter spoons are my favorite and usually my most productive presentation. Try tying a spoon on the bend of your dart hook.
Kevin Riley
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
A lot of things that you want, companies want. You want a productive employee, a trained employee. You want to retain employees. Unions want that too.
Rock Regan
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden
We're counting on him to be a productive member of our bullpen.
Andrew Friedman
It was a productive meeting.
Cheryl Irwin
You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.
Peter Wallace
People in executive positions may have invaluable knowledge or skills, but when it comes to being a leader, not everyone is born with what it takes. That's where we come in. As coaches, we are there to change ineffective behaviors so executives can lead a productive team.
Rolf Gruen
If you are focused and you work on those things, you will have more of a feeling of accomplishment. You will be more productive because you're accomplished those things.
Debra Lund
We've broadened people's responsibilities, and we are far more productive than we use to be.
David Mccall
We have had extremely productive discussions over the last two days.
David Spooner
We've got to get out there and be productive. We can't be a liability; we have to go out and just play the way we know how to play.
Chris Lawrence
It was contentious. You could sense a little bit of hostility but it was a productive meeting. I'm hoping it de-escalated the situation.
Jim Gallagher
We're a very productive group.
Stacy Geagan
The Mitsubishi press incorporates all the automation features we could want. They are uniformly productive features.
Keith Murphy
The General Assembly has chosen Tunisia and we are all looking forward to a productive meeting there.
Shashi Tharoor
My government will create incentives for them to go to school and learn skill to become productive citizens. This is achievable and I am committed to it.
George Weah
It was just something that kind of threw me off guard, because I thought I had a pretty productive season last year.
Terrence Long
It's going to keep going until I retire, so I think it's something that will always be there. When it changes, it changes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. As long as I'm productive, I don't think it should matter.
Omar Jacobs
Use it or lose it. I'm using what's left of my mind and I enjoy it very much and it seems to keep my mind productive.
Buddy Ebsen
The light system has met our expectations and we are 25 percent more productive in the store put area since transitioning from RF.
Matt Dippold
He's an athletic guy, moves around well and we're not really getting much production other than Will Herring at (strong-side) linebacker. We felt like we needed another productive guy.
Will Muschamp
I was like, What can I do to be productive and make a difference for others? And City Year was just an amazing option.
Rachel Green
I'd first like to apologize to my family, teammates and coaches for not meeting NCAA standards, but I'll continue to pursue my criminal justice degree. I'll learn from this experience and look forward to becoming very productive in life and as a student here at Maryland.
Chris Mccray
Historically, we focused on the independent developer. We wanted to make such developers highly productive. Visual Studio 2005 is no different.
Soma Somasegar
We are not losing production. We have highly productive operations with fewer employees.
Patrick Schillinger
Excuses are seldom truthful, often handy, and rarely productive. Don't make excuses: make things happen!
Rhoberta Shaler, Phd
So far, I've been very pleased with the pitching because of other than Rivers and Ford, we really didn't know what we were going to get. Defensively, we're really solid and the offense has been productive up to now.
Mike Giovinazzo
A quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.
Roy Barnes
The world is changing. People need to realize and Barstow needs to be more productive so it doesn't end up like Calico (a ghost town).
Bill Whyde
Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
Kehlog Albran
I maintain the belief that it is not that easy or productive or value-creating going for a mega-merger.
Franz Humer
We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find a happy medium. We're taking the path of least resistance. We have to have an inside game when our outside shots aren't falling. We're not attacking on offense like we should be.
Stan Joplin
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell L. Willkie
We're continuing to talk and it's been very positive and productive. I don't see it as a real issue where it's a standoff or anything.
Darryl Sutter
The current reorganization created more inefficiencies than the efficiencies that it was supposed to have created. And I think if we go back to the old way, we'll have better government, we'll be more productive.
Councilman Gary Okino
But he thinks the game so well, and you don't have to skate as well if you're a real intelligent player. And we found out he was a real intelligent player, and he's been quite productive to this point. He's probably exceeded any expectations that we have.
Barry Trotz
Our hope is, we can have a productive day of dialogue [at each stop] about gay and lesbian issues.
Jacob Reitan
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Richard Stallman
It's definitely made us more efficient and productive.
Frank Giardina
States with the strongest demand for labor are also those which are experiencing a lift in economic activity from the mining boom and the associated strong investment in new productive capacity and infrastructure.
Tony Pearson
It was a productive meeting. The group agreed to submit suggestions regarding the closing/consolidation of schools, but they know it's pretty much done.
Richard Hartley
We're having productive conversations with Twentieth, but we're a step shy of closing a deal.
Robert Greenblatt
You have to want it to play at this level. This is probably the most stressful thing I have ever done. There is a lot of fitness; it's more focused and more productive. This is professional and you learn to be professional. A lot of guys get drafted and decide they don't want to do this.
Andy Gruenebaum
We just are not really able, at our current staffing and current (oil) activity levels, to keep up with reclaiming the land and getting it back into productive use.
Lynn Helms
It's tough, but you know, you've got to turn those boos into cheers. I have another opportunity to use this preseason game to go out there and make our offense be productive. Hopefully when we come back here next week, there will be cheers instead of boos.
Kyle Boller
We have struggled against the 2-3 zone. We had a light practice on Monday, but a productive one, because we have needed to work on the zone.
Sheila Green Gerding
You would expect with all the new science, we'd become more efficient and more productive.
Dr. Janet Woodcock
The fact that productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeological sites in the Americas supports the idea that such forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.
Jon Erlandson
Ninety per cent of people with HIV in India are unaware of their status, but compulsion is always counter-productive.
Denis Broun
Relationship enhancement is the most productive outlet possible for anger.
Deborah Cox
The benefit should be used in a way which assists people to be productive. We need to use the benefit to assist the economy to sustain itself and that isn't happening right now.
Tariana Turia
We would have been spending the time together all summer anyway so we figured we'd be productive.
Jacob Miller
There are a lot of managers in this league that would love to have a veteran presence in their line-up like Harry, especially when he's coming off one of his most productive seasons. I feel very fortunate to have him back and I'm sure the Winnipeg fans feel the same way.
Rick Forney
He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Gladys Rodriguez
When one farm reaches the end of its ideal productive period, we go to another.
José Roberto Prado
Jeffery Spurgeon welcomes the opportunity to prove to you ... he can be a productive citizen.
Matt Phillips
I understand the profession. When the offense is not productive, it falls on my shoulders. I'm not happy with the decision, but I have to move on.
Dan Werner
I'm not sad it's ending. I'm happy it accomplished so much. I think it inspired many people who saw the mission as NASA and JPL at our best -- bold, exciting, resourceful and productive.
Marc Rayman
I'm not a big worrier simply because it doesn't do anything for you. If I thought it was productive, I'd worry. It's a matter of getting our hockey club to play consistent hockey.
Greg Puhalski
The NBC show will probably be a little counter productive if it's a close game.
Richard Read
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Friedrich List
He had a great game last week (against Baltimore). The name of the game is production and making plays. Last week he was very productive. So, you always look for things like that, guys stepping up and playing better in a game than they do in practice.
Jim Johnson
We definitely have experience and guys that have been productive in the game.
John Kaleo
...Our goal is to make sure that we are having more productive citizens.
Karen Forte
We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful.
Doug Snyder
It's not always pretty with us, but it's productive and we get it done, and that's the most important thing.
Todd Wetjen
College towns aren't the most prosperous because their knowledge isn't deployed in the most economically productive occupations.
Robert Weissbourd
There's a lot of important work. It's a very busy schedule in the first couple of days, and I think it's been productive and I'm certainly enjoying myself.
John Bolton
They were very good. It was a very productive meeting.
Jim Bowman
They not only have the hottest offense, but the most productive offense in the conference. They run an (option) offense that's different from what everybody else in the conference does and they do it with good skill players. When you have very skilled players who can improvise, that creates a great challenge for your defensive unit.
Al Lavan
Many people do not realize the toll stress can have on their lives or that mental health is key to overall health in general. Caring for both the mind and the body not only helps boost a person's spirits but can help lead to a healthier, happier and more productive life.
Cynthia Wainscott
They're not actually doing anything worthwhile or productive. It just doesn't interest me.
Jodie Marsh
Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest . . .; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.
Paula Gunn Allen
Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.
Jerry York
It was a good, productive meeting. He is entertaining and well-informed. I was quite happy to see he was genuinely interested in our industry and in a give-and-take of ideas on cinema.
Karan Johar
He?s just a tremendously organized, productive person.
Karen Smith
We believe this sector is a particularly productive area that should be included in most investor portfolios. Companies this size are often enjoying a sweet spot in their lifecycles.
David Nolan
It was a very productive evening. We have the kids playing in the game against the police. We have the younger kids in the stands, cheering everyone on.
John Belluardo
He's a player who is improving and becoming more productive, and to lose someone like that hurts.
Dave Littlefield
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I love being busy and moving from one thing to the next thing. I am always trying to be as productive as I can every minute of the day.
Marissa Brown
Whatever happens it will be good because we can move forward and have a more productive theater schedule.
Claire Kiley
We view the meeting with the FDA as very productive.
Sam Waksal
Fernando was also very productive in the laps he was able to run.
Christian Silk
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
James F. Cooper
We therefore lost some time in the afternoon, fitting a new engine, but after that we had a productive time. The car's actual pace seems pretty good, as David put in some quick laps late in the day, even though by then it was very windy.
Brian Morgan
Just as prepared travelers check the weather forecast for their destination city, consumers who are online should also have a tool they can use to help them prepare for a safe and productive experience on the Internet.
Arthur Wong
The new incentive program has made a big difference in the attitudes and effort that the students are putting forward. The ability to earn a day off is a great reward for students who are productive and practice good citizenship.
Jim Swanson
I want to regain my bond with my kids, pursue barbering and hope to be a productive citizen again.
Russell Brown
It's all mixed in, and that's the beauty of it. They're very functional buildings. We're planning to basically recycle those buildings into productive uses.
Brad Baker
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James
There's a lot of plant and equipment investment going into Rutland because it is one of the most productive plants in the GE system.
Patrick Kennedy
It's a combination of new service hours and taking existing hours that aren't very productive and moving them into services that are more productive.
David Hull
This article will tell you exactly where to go to catch halibut and what to use. Fishing & Hunting News has introduced anglers to thousands of the most productive fishing and hunting areas over the past 51 years and featured precise maps of the very best places to go.
Andy Martin
We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.
Bob Marcusse
Although the participants in this group came to the table with significantly different perspectives, they engaged in high-level, productive discussions, the results of which will be extremely helpful to Congress as it considers changes to the Endangered Species Act.
Peter Adler
As we have said all along, the guy that's the most productive at the position will have that opportunity. Trent will be the guy [against BYU]. Now it's his chance to run with it.
Buddy Teevens
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump
We've had a long, productive and cordial relationship with Gary and the local. This last contract negotiation had its difficulties, but when you have an effective relationship like we do, you're able to put those things behind you and move on.
Michael Durand
In pro football you're a number. If you don't play well, you're gone and no one cares. But in college, coaches recruit young men and ask them to become a part of their family and help you become a productive citizen for the next 30, 40, 50 years of your life. Your coaches help you develop into something you can be proud of and they are there for life.
Barry Switzer
We are pleased that BLM has restored the funding. OSU has enjoyed a long and productive relationship with the bureau, and we look forward to working with them in the future to address important issues regarding forestry and other land management issues.
Hal Salwasser
Obviously, I would love to play and come back and finish and hopefully prove to everyone I can still play at a high level, that I can still be productive and do it the right way, which I've always done, ... I am not going to shy away from what happened to me. I am going to face it. Hopefully, I can explain myself one day, and whether people believe me or not, I can't control that.
Rafael Palmeiro
There's no doubt in my mind that it was extremely productive. (We've) got good feedback, good phone calls, but you don't know until that information is processed and followed up.
Sgt. Paul Penzone
It was a quick decision we had to make. We knew that we had to be out there, and it was much easier to deal with the accident being on the road with our friends versus being at home by ourselves. It was a much more productive grieving process.
Jack O'shea
[Congratulating his successor and wishing him] a very productive time, ... He will have many challenges ahead of him ... I hope it will be a fulfilling experience for him, here in Kosovo, as it remains for me.
Bernard Kouchner
I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.
Harold Wilson
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer
It's that time again, that time. It's been a productive training camp. I think we got a lot of things accomplished. Kudos to everybody. Everybody came out and worked hard.
Jesse Holley
We met in our continuing meetings with Poe, it was a productive meeting and company officials have agreed to work out the claims that they still have and about which we have received calls.
Bob Lotane
So if you can automate this, the end-user can have a self-service environment. They're going to get their password reset, so they're happy. And your help desk people will be more productive.
Brent Hanbury
Taken together, these changes position us for the most productive period of growth in our 161-year history.
John Pepper
This is very important because you are dealing with a population that had a low self-esteem after being on diets before and having failed. Here, we are teaching them a lifestyle change where they can return to life and become productive in the community.
Robert Coleman
I felt like I was productive at points and I wasn't productive at points, ... Any good QB has some down time and down years and unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to make up for that.
Casey Paus
As long as they're productive, it all evens out.
Milt Thompson
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
John Murray
He (Duke) has been doing a good job for us. He is starting to get adjusted to the level of play and as a result is being more productive.
Marty Cooper
The only person who can guarantee your life is you. You never know if your husband is going to die, lose his job, become disabled; we want these girls to be prepared for whatever life brings them so they can have productive lives.
Jenny Chamberlain
He's been more productive. No other reason than that.
Larry Coker
We came pretty close, but we just couldn't get it closed. We just had to leave it alone for a while. We sort of got stuck, like you do when you can't get a deal. But we had a good productive meeting and we left on a good note.
Jim Steiner
We have just completed two days of productive talks with China on a broad textiles agreement and we plan to meet again soon.
John Stubbs
We're steadily approaching a point where if we don't reach a northern facing slope, we won't be as productive as we'd like.
Byron Jones
This is a very unfortunate situation. (Jackson) can be productive.
John Clarke
It wasn't just about giving someone food or paying their utilities or counseling them. To my father, it was about helping a person establish a social structure, go to church, get a job and become a productive member of society.
Luis Hernandez
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner
Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive; trust me.
Judith Orloff
Having Congress or having other people call for him to be fired or call for him to resign would not be productive. That's something really only the president should decide.
Martha Rainville
Anytime we get to play in the spring, it is nice because we get to practice certain things and see different playing styles across the net. Our players left with a good feeling and I think it was a productive weekend for us.
Steffi Legall
We just couldn't get anything going. Not a productive night. My goal has been not just yards or numbers, but to make good decisions and not have any turnovers. I didn't make good decisions and I had a turnover.
Aaron Rodgers
Government has to embrace the concept of incentives in driving the market for the cleanest vehicles. Beating car buyers and commercial vehicle customers with tax penalties, while ignoring incentives, is absolutely counter-productive.
Christopher Macgowan
Talks continue to be productive, and we hope to reach an agreement soon.
Matt Triaca
I was honored to have the opportunity to meet with President Museveni and continue our great friendship. We had an open and productive exchange of ideas and I am grateful for the leading role that President Museveni has assumed with the worldwide effort to combat HIV/AIDS.
Christopher Smith
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
Brad Henry
But I think, in the longer term, the Brogden affair and the Latham affair are aberrations in what is normally a fairly productive and collaborative relationship.
Mark Riley
Our offense should be better than that at this point of the season. We took bad shots, we made bad decisions, we didn't have any faith in people getting open. We have to do something more productive with the basketball.
Steve Bartos
We don't have a single point at which a person becomes old. People are able to be productive far beyond a specific age.
Kathryn Kaye
We were productive in the '90s. It just was the music scene then was just grunge. We never really lost our following and we never really became a grunge band. We became what we were . . . we just kept evolving what we were into a better us.
David Bryan
We hope our defensive pressure is as productive as it's been the last two games. We've scored a lot of points off our defense. We just need to continue boxing out and crashing the boards.
Brandy Corbett
We can turn these dogs over to law enforcement, if they meet the criteria, and they end up in a very productive life. They really appear to enjoy what they do. To them it's like playing a game all the time.
Tom Colvin
We're doing everything to keep our employees and utilize them in the most productive manner in an effort to have our community return to the way it was.
Phil Ramon
He's done nothing around here to turn a person off -- in the clubhouse or on the mound. He's productive. You can't help but like everything he does. He doesn't wow you with his stuff. All he does is get people out.
Grady Little
We got everyone a lot of playing time and it was a marathon. Soccer-wise, it was not as productive as I would like it to be in the goal-scoring department.
Susan Peel
He's a good man. He's helped a lot of our pitchers over the years. A guy like Charley is one of the reasons we've had such a productive pitching program.
Tim Purpura
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
John Sculley
(Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and has been struggling with that.
Bret Campbell
It was a productive day. I feel good to shoot even for the three days.
Scott Christensen
Any move could be counter productive for OPEC, ... They need strong economies to maintain demand.
Julian Callow
I think Ted Malinowski did a good job. He kept us off-balanced. We didn't make productive outs. Offensively, we got stagnant. We just didn't put things together.
Nathan Stevens
We didn't get off to a good start with (pitching). We gave up too many runs right away. It makes it a little hard. Hopefully all the nervousness will be gone and we'll be productive.
Don Buford
Our days were unpredictable, we never knew if it was gonna to be a productive day or a non-productive day.
Fred Durst
Mr. Kushner had a very productive discussion today with Nets ownership and with the investment bankers, and he continues to aggressively pursue acquiring the team with the purpose of keeping them in New Jersey.
Bob Sommer
He's a model prisoner. He taught. He did this, he did that. He coached. He taught. He worked out. .?.?. I think he's going to be a productive member of society.
Diane Polan
The company's objective during its real estate review... is to identify underperforming stores and close or move them to new, more productive locations.
Michael Feuer
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!
Trip Hawkins
Our goal is for them to go back and be productive in their communities and take back what the devil has stolen from them — their respect, identity.
Albert Flores
It was good, across the board. If we run the ball, we're going to be more productive. Every spring, all across the country, the offensive line is a little behind the defensive line.
Jordan Palmer
Bob and Harvey hope for an amicable resolution that will allow them to continue to be productive members of the Disney family.
Miramax Films
You can't assume that this person is worthless. You can't assume that they were a drug dealer. You can't assume that their life didn't mean something and they weren't productive and they weren't somebody's father.
Adreinne Young
The rotor developed for the 8010 was so good that we couldn't hold it back from the 2388. When we put our new rotor in the 2388, we created a much more productive combine.
Dan Renaud
Any ideas about a coercive, forceful solution to the issue are highly counter-productive and cannot be supported.
Sergei Lavrov
The industry is more competitive and productive.
Bill Klesse
We can all see and envision him having a long and productive career, as he like every other young player, learns and develops his game.
Jack Zduriencik
How productive do you think that machine is?
George Taylor
Sierra Leone now has the chance to prove to the world that it is committed to peace, committed to human rights and committed to its own future as a productive and capable member of the global community.
Marcus Thompson
Developing policy in a rapidly changing fact pattern isn't the most productive approach.
Michael Hogan
Just because you have a disease, it's not over. You can still have a real productive, fun life.
Doug Carroll's
The city is in effect free to respond to the demand of the citizenry to arrest in great numbers its least productive, most annoying citizens, and ignore whether those arrests lead to overcrowding, delays in booking or damage the credibility of the justice system as a whole.
John Glynn
We tried to have some productive dialog with them on several occasions.
Bill Curry
In the end, what we've been able to determine, factually and by way of actual figures, is a safe mine is a more productive mine.
Joe Cerenzia
We disagreed with them that this disclosure was a productive exercise--how would it at all improve the situation on the Hudson?
Gary Sheffer
The inclusion of pilot controls has had the biggest impact on the industry in the last 24 months. Operator comfort becomes increasingly more important as businesses try to keep their best operators. With pilot controls, operators are less fatigued at the end of the day, and more productive as a result.
Bob Tyler
When I came into the league, I was just looking to find my niche, to find where I could fit in and be productive and help my team.
David West
Hopefully, they will see that teenagers do productive things. They are willing to give of themselves. Not all teenagers are angry teenagers.
Frank Castillo
I wanted everyone to see that the Peace Corps is very diverse, and that not everyone has the same experience. Recruitment is much more productive when you have a lot of people sharing stories and photos.
Amy Panikowski
The fact that these productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeological sites in the Americas really enhances the argument that the first Americans didn't walk here, they floated. In essence, they may have utilized a sort of kelp highway.
Jon Erlandson
The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course to law-abiding and productive lives.
Alex Acosta
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