Quotes About Productivity

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

We spend more time wasting time on thinking about wasted time.

The killing of time is the worst of murders. Daniel Defoe

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

Early to bed, early to rise, leaves me cranky with rings under my eyes.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

Develop more productivity with an increase in leadership skills.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.