Quotes About Productivity

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Say not: "When I have free time I shall study", for you may perhaps never have any free time

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn't be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.