Quotes About Productivity

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I just look at like, if I'm doing 200 plus dates a year on the road with Raw or SmackDown, or I'm doing a manageable load of 30 to 50 matches with NXT - I can do four years of that in the time that I do one year on Raw or SmackDown.

When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're going to write next, it's easier to get going again the next day.

I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

Our smartphones can offer innovative opportunities for improving how we react to our environment, and I believe it is increasingly becoming an asset - not a hindrance - to maintaining a healthier relationship with our work, our friends, and the world around us.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

If I had my way, I want to do 15 films in a year, but I have realised I cannot physically do that.

We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.

To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.

First off, you always gotta get your work done.

I always gotta be doing something.

I am not much on down-time. I'm ADHD, and I gotta be moving.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

I'm a coffee guy but I don't think I've had a full cup of coffee. I'll grab one and then I'll have a few sips of it then go back to work and it's cold then I'll throw that away and go back later and get another one.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.