Quotes About Productivity

If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results.

The day is 24 hours; 6 hours we sleep, so you have left 18 hours. So don't ever give me this thing "I'm working 12 hours so I don't have time to exercise and to work out." Or "I don't have time to study another language" and all these kind of things. 18 hours; so utilize the 18 hours, that's what I've always believed in, and I feel like that's the only way you can get ahead.

Ze herinnert het zich nog goed, ze fietste naar huis en ze dacht: ik ben eenzaam. Ze belde Roland en hij zei: 'Dat is heel naar voor je, maar op lange termijn is het niet slecht. Eenzaamheid is de voorwaarde voor ware productiviteit. Je moet ervan leren te genieten, net als van gember.

In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat ook omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten.

HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

capitalism as an economic and social system that makes people unhappy by making them into part of a human machine in which humanity is expunged and only productivity remains.

One of the nastiest and most virulent addictions I have seen is workaholism

The rewards of that productivity give way to a fear of falling behind as an impetus to keep running. Soon enough, the work crowds out relationships and outside activities.

Economists consistently find that our marginal productivity tanks with work hours beyond eight or ten per day.

2. DO YOUR CORE JOB

Rule 5. Tune out: Disconnect more from the unproductive debates.

Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.

I'm a pretty early riser, so I'm sort of the queen of five A.M. I love getting up early. It's how I've written most of my books - that hour and a half before my kids are up.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.

Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.