Quotes About Productivity

My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.

You only get so many flight hours. It's not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I used to sit and draw in the evening with a couple of crates of beer. That makes the ideas flow.

Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

I used to think that if I was ever so lucky as to get a book deal that I would write all the time. All day, every day. I'd write three books a year. The truth, though, is that writing all day isn't really feasible. I could do it, but I'd be folding in on a lot of other aspects of my life, things I care about. And I wouldn't be happy.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

If I have free time, I go to the gym, or do errands.

In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.

I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?