Quotes About Productivity

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and ready for a good picture. That would make life much easier.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Working is a big part of me and my life and I wasn't happy to stay at home - I'm a workaholic.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Forget about calories and focus on accomplishment: don't take life sitting down. Then, when the day is done, you've earned your rest.

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them.

Delays and laziness are the two great gulfs in which multitudes of souls are drowned and perish.

High-Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard.

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

When the sun shineth, make hay.