Productive Activity Quotes

Never mistake motion for action.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Whether an instrument shall be regarded as productive capital or not depends entirely on its being used, or not, by some productive labourer…

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.