I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An unproductive photograph designed to keep you in the process of looking is of course something larger than an expression of aberrant sexuality.
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.
It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.
Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.
In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.
