Quotes About Productivity

Eliminate multitasking to learn faster and think better.

In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1 hours per day.

Women's IQ scores dropped an average of 5 percent. For men, multitasking was catastrophic: Their IQ dropped fifteen points.

Never drink black coffee at lunch: it will keep you awake in the afternoon.

When we have the habit of setting as a goal only activity that we can accomplish and that is genuinely productive, we've taken the first step to getting some real work done. Rather than succeeding or not succeeding almost by accident in the service of some goal that's really beyond our control, we've taken the first step to taking responsibility for our actions and to end what is, really, self-deception (and probably companywide deception).

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

Hardworking people are always cheerful, for they have no time to manufacture imaginary troubles, which are always worse than real ones.

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

We focused instead on helping them to manage their energy more effectively in the service of whatever mission they were on.

During those 41/2 hours of focused morning work, Peter was able to write nearly twice as much as had sitting at his desk for up to ten hours a day in previous years.

Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.

Energy, Not Time, Is Our Most Precious Resource

The most important organizational resource is energy.

Gallup found that the key drivers of productivity for employees include whether they feel cared for by a supervisor or someone at work; whether they have received recognition or praise during the past seven days; and whether someone at work regularly encourages their development. Put another way, the ability to communicate consistently positive energy lies at the heart of effective management.

In his Treatise on Painting, da Vinci wrote, "It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little relaxation. . . . When you come back to the work your judgment will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgment.

The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

You know you have had a productive day when you run out of semen.

If we focus our efforts and energy on doing our work instead of getting out of our work, everyone wins.

missing, intangible, undefinable "something" that we only know exists because we don't seem to have it. "Something to do" represents the investment of the most precious commodity that we all have—our time. We all have the same amount of hours and minutes each day. Success and happiness hang in the balance based upon how

Being productive is an essential element of happiness

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.