Quotes About Productivity

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.

What do you think happiness is?" she asked him. "A by-product," he answered immediately, "to being useful.

What do you think happiness is?" she asked him. "A by-product," he answered immediately, "to being useful." She looked at him. "What?" she said. "What do you mean?" He looked back at her, surprised. "Well," he said, "if you do good work and are useful, that makes you happy.

Maybe," I say, just to be nice. It'll be too much of a pain to bring all my supplies downstairs and get set up again. I'm in a good rhythm right now.

Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing up the land. Then snow comes like a bandage, and winter heals the wounds.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Metric fixation leads to a diversion of resources away from frontline producers toward managers, administrators, and those who gather and manipulate data.

Costs to productivity. Economists who specialize in measuring economic productivity report that in recent years the only increase in total factor productivity in the American economy has been in the information-technology-producing industries.11 A question that ought to be asked is to what extent the culture of metrics—with its costs in employee time, morale, and initiative, and its promotion of short-termism—has itself contributed to economic stagnation?

So organizations measure what they've spent, rather than what they produce, or they measure process rather than product.

I hated wasting time as much as I hated having none of it

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If you FOCUS on your PRIORITIES---You ELIMINATE all of your CONFUSION.

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping