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Quotes About Productivity

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
Accomplish something every day of your life.
~ Walter Annenberg
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
~ Karl Kraus
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
~ Ray Bradbury
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
~ Eric Hoffer
I plan my life in 15-minute sections.
~ Dave Pelzer
In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
~ Aldous Huxley
Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
~ Brian Tracy
Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.
~ Scott Belsky
The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
~ Stephen Covey
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
~ Thomas A. Edison
You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.
~ Brian Tracy
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
~ Chael Sonnen
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
~ John Ruskin
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
~ Martin Seligman
Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
~ Robert Breault
We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
~ Harvey Mackay
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
~ Aldous Huxley
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
~ Harland Williams
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
~ Douglas Coupland
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
~ Eleanora Duse
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
~ Francis Bacon