"act productively" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in any context where you want to encourage or remind someone to make productive use of their time. For example, you could say "Let's try to act productively today and get as much work done as we can."
Charlie chimes in with the spoken footnote that suggests the movie's hidden mainspring: It's true that the forces that oblige members of the U.H.B. to at least appear to act productively and responsibly carries [sic] little weight, or none at all, with members of society whose social positions are secure no matter what they do.
(This means that cortisol is racing through your system and wreaking havoc on your capacity to think clearly and act productively).
Molecular machines have the potential to act productively under each of these conditions; what is important is that the application is appropriate for which to use synthetic molecular machines.
But instead, the court declined, and now the city's adversaries are suggesting that if the city does not act more productively soon, they may call on Judge Sand to appoint a third party to speed things along, said Mr. Sussman, the N.A.A.C.P. lawyer.
How you can act creatively and productively in this world when you have that kind of inertia and resistance, I don't know".
But even this breed of activism can turn counter-productively violent.
According to the common model, PHB acts as a scaffold to productively direct the RAS RAF1 interaction [ 19].
Stretching their conceptions of time (and space) spent productively, houses turn into house, days into nights".
Thus, other modeling studies have examined the possibility that CTLs act by killing cells before they become productively infected [ 110, 111].
Lighting only has potential to act as a deterrent if witnesses are present and can counter-productively attract attention to a target and assist a burglar.
Productively," Kerry told reporters.
