Quotes About Productivity

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

I don't have spare time.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

I don't waste time being depressed.

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.