Quotes About Productivity

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.