Quotes About Productivity

I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting for you to lay a golden egg. Wherever it is my music comes from, it just doesn't show up when the pressure is on.

I'm a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

I usually take up short films when I am not tied up with feature films. Short films are easier to work on... because it doesn't take much of your time. The number of shoot days are lesser as compared to feature films.

When people look at all the things I do, they say it's overwhelming, but I don't feel overwhelmed. I get it done. I'm very organized, and it's all tied together.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.

Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

I keep a really tight schedule.

Because of the excellent training in Malayalam cinema, where we have very tight budgets, you are forced to make it work in a small budget and at the same time you have to tell the story effectively.

Companies are realizing that in order to retain talent, they need to allow the flexibility to work smarter. This

In fact, the opposite of work isn't play - it's idleness. That's

Fun is not a form of entertainment, it's an integral part of being good at what you do at work. —Daniel H. Pink, Free Agent Nation, 2002

forgot that I would get old and lose the power that seemed entirely part of me, the power that allowed me to be busy and productive, rear three children, write books in the evening, and still get up and go to work.

If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less time for the attentive, slow, good work of creativity, conversation, and connection that real people and real homes require.

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

Successful people create systems so that essential tasks always get done.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.