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Quotes About Productivity

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
~ Nick Offerman
My computer is littered with abandoned projects.
~ Nick Hornby
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
~ Thomas Kinkade
I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
~ Niki Taylor
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
~ Andrew Weil
Usually for cartoons, I record them in the mornings from 9 A.M. to noon, then I have the rest of the day to do on camera. It actually gives me time to work on my own projects.
~ Greg Cipes
I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.
~ Logan Green
I'm not particularly prolific.
~ Martin Gore
When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
~ Abi Morgan
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
~ Billy Burke
I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.
~ Holly Black
It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.
~ Richard Greenberg
I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
~ Doreen Cronin
When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.'
~ Theresa Rebeck
I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.
~ Ben Howard
I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.
~ Theresa Rebeck
I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.
~ El-P
I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives because these phones do make people's lives better. They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they make them feel safe and all of those things.
~ Martin Cooper
I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.
~ Diamond Dallas Page
I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point.
~ Eli Broad
I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.
~ Jason Isbell
I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.
~ Elliott Yamin