Quotes About Productivity

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Gavin was lying on his bed watching ESPN. He should have something more constructive to do than watch a replay of a soccer game between two European teams. Why wasn't he up and dressed, doing something rather than lazing in bed

sitting at a computer for long

Proverbs 31:27: "She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

Everybody is busy. Every man turns himself into a whole corporation to handle the business.

Routine kills creative thought.

One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.

You might not think you're an early-morning person. I didn't think I was either. But once you get used to it, you might never want to go back. You can accomplish more by the time other people wake up than most people accomplish all day.

Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.

When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.

The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be.

You know what's wanted here, We need strong ale to appear: So brew me a barrel right away! Tomorrow won't do what's undone today,

Il mondo mi risulta esecrabile e pauroso se solo devo dare spettacolo del mio ozio. Ma se mi si trova lieta al lavoro, instancabile nell'eseguire il mio dovere, allora posso sostenere gli sguardi di chiunque perché non ho bisogno di temere quelli divini.

Budgets may count Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), but great teams count on people.

as an organization, you incur capability debt, because people (managers and technical staff) can't improve their capabilities when they're overburdened with too much work to do.

People learn together by working together. Don't waste time on fake team-building activities such as anything physical. Those activities might be fun for some people, but they don't help people learn how to work together at work.

Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task. Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task