industriousness

They Open Up waste-land, till the fields, grow vegetables and raise pigs to lighten the people of their burden and to develop industriousness, which is the true mark of the labouring people.

Achievements of Mao Tse Tung Abhay N 2006

They Open Up waste-land, till the fields, grow vegetables and raise pigs to lighten the people of their burden and to develop industriousness, which is the true mark of the labouring people.

Archive 2006-10-01 Abhay N 2006

Pretty amazing that our industriousness will be our downfall if we don't counter with more smurtz than what put us here in the first place.

PegasusNews.com stories 2009

To adopt wise King Solomon's words about industry (the concrete form of the more abstract word 'industriousness'):

CounterPunch 2009

(49 percent), "high professionalism, competence" (45 percent), "industriousness" (40 percent), as well as "initiative, integrity, and culture" (by 21 to 26 percent).

RIA Novosti 2010

Likewise, Maurice-Quentin de la Tour's monumental pastel portrait of the magistrate Gabriel Bernard de Rieux, who looks up from reading in a book-strewn study as a clock keeps time behind him, is the essence of the erudite professional whose industriousness has merited him his elite stature and surroundings.

With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

The results of this study as well as prior studies suggest that narcissists do care more about being perceived as superior on agentic traits (e.g., industriousness, assertiveness, dominance) compared to communal traits (e.g., agreeableness and honesty).

Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists? 2011

So much also for the idea—popular among Keynesians—that if only German industriousness didn't create such a competitiveness gap, the rest of Europe would have a better shot at catching up.

Germany Slides Toward Recession 2012

Now that our technologies so adeptly bridge the old divide between industriousness and relaxation, work and play, either through oscillation or else a kind of merging, everything being merely digits put to different uses, we ought to ask if we aren't selling off the site of our greatest possible happiness.

Notable & Quotable 2011

"Winning the future," as President Obama puts it, requires both industriousness within America and acknowledgment that success elsewhere brings its own opportunities.

Let a Thousand Talents Bloom Raymond Zhong 2011