Quotes About Productivity

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

Cook advised aspiring authors against waiting for inspiration, which he believed to be the last resort of the lazy writer. He himself had written two 33,000-word stories a week for months at a time. And this was precisely the schedule Gardner set for

Time wasters, however, must be dealt with harshly or they may ruin our spiritual potential in God.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life," Stilgar said, accepting the tray with coffee as it was passed in the door.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life," Stilgar said

Because if you don't know how to manage time, time can rule you like a tyrant.

On the other hand, venting one's frustrations at the keyboard typically produces a more impressive performance.

Hier war es wohl die Müdigkeit inmitten glücklicher Arbeit; etwas, was nach außen hin wie Müdigkeit aussah und eigentlich unzerstörbare Ruhe, unzerstörbarer Frieden war.

This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic.

In what an effortless sleepiness I wrote this useless, unfinished thing.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

À force de se lever tôt», pensa-t-il, «on devient complètement stupide.» L'être humain a besoin de sommeil.

These early mornings,' he thought, 'are very bad for the brain.

he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work

Probably I am constitutionally not lazy at all, but there was nothing for me to do.

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Lunch is for wimps.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.