Quotes About Productivity

I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

What I'm trying to do is maximize every day.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done.

I like to do things that get results. Results are all that matters.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Sometimes I get lazy, I want to get rid of that.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

That's what I like: to kind of get up and start working right away in the morning.

Getting up early means I can write for a few hours before anyone starts phoning me or ringing the doorbell.

I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

You're never going to do as good a job as you can if you're rushed.

Life is a results game. You turn up late for work four or five times, you get sacked. It's doing the right things and that's one thing I've learned about life. Everything is about results.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

I believe it saves a good half hour to forty-five minutes a day, not having to stand in front of the hangers and the drawers and figure out what to wear.

Everybody loves saving time and something that's easy.

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.