Quotes About Productivity

Send her a quick note while you're stuck in a long meeting. A lighthearted chat definitely makes the time go faster.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

Kill time and you will kill your career.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.