Quotes About Productivity

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years," and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who had just proudly described his work, "That's exactly what I mean about wasting your time.

research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.

Ever notice that when you lack sleep, things that seemed important before no longer seem to matter so much? Setting up and programming the coffeemaker so the coffee will be ready when I wake up the next day seems like a great idea at 9:00 p.m., but at 2:00 a.m.

Deep concentration causes the energy consumption in your brain to go up by only about 1 percent. No matter what you are doing with your conscious mind, it is your unconscious that dominates your mental activity—and therefore uses up most of the energy consumed by the brain. Regardless of whether your conscious mind is idle or engaged, your unconscious mind is hard at work doing the mental equivalent of push-ups, squats, and wind sprints. O

The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel "burnt out." That's good to know when scheduling your tasks—you could be better at generating imaginative ideas if you do that kind of thinking after working on a chore that involves a period of tedious, focused effort that strains your powers of concentration.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

Hari yang dilewatkan dengan baik, akan menghasilkan tidur yang nyenyak.

As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well-employed life brings a happy death.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

Anger is such a waste of time and energy. It takes a monumental effort

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

The faster you go, the idler you get.