Sentence examples for was being productive from inspiring English sources

"I thought I was doing a great job because I was being productive," Mr. Dekok said.

Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, laughed earlier this week at Republican claims that the Senate was being productive simply because it passed a farm bill and an immigration overhaul.

One editor recalls that you could tell whether your neighbor was being productive that day just by the typewriter sounds coming out of his office (thus pressuring you to get down to work).

"He's gaining respect because he's being productive," Ms. Broom said.

I know how you got here: you thought you were being productive.

"They like it, I think, because it looks like I'm being productive rather than sitting at home watching Jeremy Kyle," Romans-Hopcraft says.

The impression that someone else is being productive while you're not, increases our stress levels as we consider our own flooded inboxes.

"By fixing the little things, you feel like you're really accomplishing things, that you're being productive and effective, that you're a real leader," he wrote.

The IS [information services] staff shouldn't have to be cops; it's up to every business unit manager to make sure that his people are being productive.

Consider that workers in the Zappos call centre are required to spend 80% of their day taking calls, that is, being productive.

"You think you're being productive.