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Quotes About Productivity

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
~ Harrison Ford
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
~ John W. Bergman
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
~ Marianne Moore
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
~ Peg Bracken
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Lack of time is a real health killer.
~ Marilu Henner
Idle time is the devil's play.
~ Mark Dayton
I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.
~ Mark Kozelek
If I had more time, I would have written less.
~ Mark Twain
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
~ Paul J. Meyer
Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.
~ O. Leslie Stone
I've actually not read any books on time management.
~ Elon Musk
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.
~ Eric Hoffer
Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.
~ James Surowiecki
God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
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.
~ Samuel Johnson
Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
~ Sebastian Vettel
Plagiarism saves time.
~ Stephen Hawking
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
~ Stephen Hawking
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
~ Tara Strong
Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!
~ Tony Robbins
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
~ William Feather