Quotes About Productivity

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Invest time, don't spend it.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.