Quotes About Productivity

La postergación es un ladrón. Roba nuestro tiempo, nuestro potencial, nuestra autoestima, nuestra paz mental.

Confident people make it a habit to think and act positively. Therefore, they enjoy life, and they accomplish a lot.

Choose at least one thing you want to accomplish each day.

It seems to me that if God took the time to enjoy each phase of His creation, His work, then you and I should also take time to enjoy our work. We should work not just to accomplish, but also to enjoy our accomplishments

Charles Dickens dijo: "Nunca podría haber hecho lo que he hecho sin los hábitos de puntualidad, orden y diligencia, sin la determinación de concentrarme en un único tema cada vez".

Cuando nos negamos a utilizar nuestro tiempo para hacer las cosas que necesitamos hacer, siempre terminamos perdiendo tiempo ocupándonos de las emergencias y la confusión que hemos creado al posponer las cosas.

I cannot state strongly enough the need for regular exercise. Many people think they don't have time to exercise, but the truth is if you don't take the time now, you may lose more time visiting doctors and having to be inactive and unproductive because you feel bad. Exercise is one of the best sources of energy you can find!

Singurul mod de a nu fi criticat niciodat? este s? nu faci nimic, dar chiar ?i atunci vei fi criticat c? e?ti lene? ?i nu faci nimic.

I can't think when you're in here, he said. What do you have to think about? Making!

Psychologists confirm that humans are incapable of giving their full attention to two tasks simultaneously.37 What people actually do is switch their attention from one task or platform to the next, and such task switching leads to a host of issues, including attention difficulties, poor decision making, and information overload.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.

all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.

La causa del fracaso es hacer muchísimas cosas de una forma ineficiente y no hacer lo suficiente de una forma eficiente.

By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

In his Sermon on the Mount, [Jesus] declares to his disciples: No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. (Matt. 6: 24) The way of mammon (capital, wealth) is the way of commodity that is the way of endless desire, endless productivity, and endless restlessness without any Sabbath. Jesus taught his disciples that they could not have it both ways.

Thus, Sabbath is a mighty antidote to an economy of depletion and diminishment, because it entails participation in a community that does not believe that human well-being and worth are established by endless productivity.

Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

The first commandment is a declaration that the God of the exodus is unlike all the gods the slaves have known heretofore. This God is not to be confused with or thought parallel to the insatiable gods of imperial productivity. This God is subsequently revealed as a God of mercy, steadfast love, and faithfulness who is committed to covenantal relationships of fidelity (see Exod. 34:6–7).

The way of mammon (capital, wealth) is the way of commodity that is the way of endless desire, endless productivity, and endless restlessness without any Sabbath. Jesus taught his disciples that they could not have it both ways.