Quotes About Productivity

Don't drink coffee in the morning. It will keep you awake until noon.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time.

If any would not work, neither should he eat.

I admire the man who exclaimed, "I have lost a day!" because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it....

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.

There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.

attempt to understand the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion, self-glorification. They are not natural, they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and to make you controllable. These feelings do not produce the nourishment and happiness that is produced when one contemplates Nature or enjoys the company of one's friends or one's work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

Once you've done that, consider the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion and self-glorification. They are not natural; they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and controllable. Those feelings don't produce the nourishment and happiness that comes about from contemplating nature, enjoying the company of friends, or loving your work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

Here's Coleridge, in 1804, when he turned thirty-two: 'Yesterday was my Birth Day. So completely has a whole year passed, with scarcely the fruits of a month. - O Sorrow and Shame...I have done nothing!

Sometimes," he says, "when I feel like working, I just sit and wait for the feeling to pass

each day working more frenetically than the last, as if against some deadline known only to him.

For some commutes, the time spent stuck in traffic will hit four hours per day.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.