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Quotes About Productivity

Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Faster time meant lower costs, of course, and quicker return on investors' money.
~ Arthur Herman
As we continue to specialize and become increasingly more productive, the fruits of our labor are no longer things we consume ourselves. They become "commodities," literally the things that make our lives comfortable, which we buy and sell in exchange for other goods.
~ Arthur Herman
El problema real que está planteando a los gobiernos de hoy no consiste en hallar una manera mejor de distribuir una riqueza existente, que evidentemente muchas veces está escandalosamente mal distribuida, sino en hallar, por medio de la educación, de la preparación para el trabajo y el estímulo a la actividad creadora, la manera de distribuir mejor entre todas las clases sociales la capacidad de producir riqueza.
~ Arturo Uslar Pietri
There are times when you have lot of things to do while sometimes you wish you had!
~ Ashima
There is a huge difference between activity and productivity. Former leads you nowhere while latter everywhere.Transition is required once.
~ Ashima
Always know the value of your time, don't waste it on frivolous things.
~ Aurora Berill
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
~ Author Unknown
Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
~ Author Unknown
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
~ Author Unknown
To save time is to lengthen life.
~ Author Unknown
Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
~ Author Unknown
I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.
~ Avril Lavigne
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
~ Ayn Rand
I found that people typically have the most routines in the morning. This makes morning fertile soil for cultivating new habits.
~ B.J. Fogg
For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares.
~ bacon francis xi
Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy and pleasant.
~ bacon francis xviii
I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.
~ Valee
I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.
~ Yung Lean
To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.
~ Nick Cave
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
~ Mary Roach
One of the happy consequences of my brain is that I rarely sleep.
~ Robert Rinder
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
~ Edmund Phelps
Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red.
~ Steven Levy