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Quotes About Productivity

We're all confounded by a lack of time.
~ Lou Dobbs
Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.
~ Paul Buchheit
The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.
~ Lena Dunham
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
~ Lynn Abbey
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.
~ Mitt Romney
To help your concentration, don't take too much time.
~ Pam Barnett
I dont have time to be depressed.
~ Pat Nixon
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
~ Ovid
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
~ Rachel Johnson
Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
~ Randy Pausch
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
~ Ray Bradbury
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.
~ Ridley Scott
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
~ Robert Browning
Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.
~ Rod Steiger
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
~ Ryan Holmes
We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.
~ Sam Huff
If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.
~ Sam Levenson
You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
~ Seth Godin
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.
~ Shirley Conran
I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.
~ Spike Jonze