Quotes About Productivity

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.

The National guys will tell you the same thing - I tend to work until the last possible minute.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

Having no work would be terrible.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Removing one task can free up a couple of minutes of free time, every day... which turns into hours or days every year. Time

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