Quotes About Productivity

it is best to limit daytime naps to a maximum of 20 minutes and take them earlier in the day rather than later. Chill

It's not more time you need. It's more quality use of the time you already have.

Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.

The time it will take to finish a programming project is twice as long as the time you've allotted for it.

Thus, big reactions (high reactivity) can communicate more clearly what a person is feeling, but also can result in the person sometimes reacting too quickly, getting upset or even dysregulated before all the information has become available. This can sometimes be counterproductive, of course: if reactivity had been lower, the person's response might have been quite different and more productive.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

For 78 years, four months and three weeks I've been meaning to overcome this fatal habit of postponing the boring by quickly doing something nice instead -- oh dear!

Diana Delonzor

Think of many things. Do one. — Portuguese saying

It's the feeling that time is to be used efficiently and productively. Even though, you know really, that means if you can balance three spinning plates on sticks, you're rewarded with a fourth, then a fifth." A

When you wake up in the morning, you choose between lying in bed another ten minutes and getting to work on time.

It is, in the long run, a good thing that machines or robots take over activities they can do, freeing humans for the things only they can do.

Generally any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity—output per hour—is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots.

The real difficulty is not the lack of time; it is what we do with the time that we have.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov didn't like each other and agreed on very few things, but they were of one opinion on this: you had to write constantly. If you can't write a major work, write minor trifles. If you can't write at all, orchestrate something.

Action, to prove fertile, stands in need of contemplation;

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

We will discover that reducing batch size is usually the single most cost-effective way to reduce queues.