Quotes About Productivity

Global economics does not speak to the public need for meaningful work, affordable housing, fulfilling education, adequate medical care, a clean environment, honest and accountable government, social and cultural renewal, or simple justice. All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

Procrastinate later.

From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

Burning daylight

We're burnin' daylight.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand'.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not

The thinking has to be done largely by people who are not directly productive—by people who appear to be living almost entirely on the work of others, but are, in fact, a long-term investment. Learning grew up in the cities, and in great institutions—it was the labor of the countryside that supported them.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Amusement, on the other hand, is sought for the sake of pleasure and is often carried to excess; it absorbs the energies that are required for useful work and thus proves a hindrance to life's true success.

Recreation Is Essential to Best Work—The time spent in physical exercise is not lost.... A proportionate exercise of all the organs and faculties of the body is essential to the best work of each. When the brain is constantly taxed while the other organs of the living machinery are inactive, there is a loss of strength, physical and mental.

T]he characteristic ideology that set England apart from other European cultures was above all the ideology of 'improvement': not the Enlightenment idea of the improvement of humanity but the improvement of property, the ethic - and indeed the science - of profit, the commitment to increasing the productivity of labour, the production of exchange value, and the practice of enclosure and dispossession.

As long as you're alive, there's always plenty to do. You know John Berryman, the poet? He says people who are bore have no inner resources. Check it out: "Dream song #14.

she knew that once she had the plot, she could write the book fairly quickly.

The Less I Say The More My Work Gets Done.

Life is too short to be passive and unproductive. Thus, live out loud, be productive, make impact and endeavour to make every minute of your life count. -Emeasoba George

Never waste your precious energy and time on gossip or habits like that. Rather, utilize and maximize your God-given energy and time.

Once we appeal to our most intimate selves, once we begin to labor and to produce, we lay claim to gifts, we become unconscious of our own gaps. No one is in a position to admit that what comes out of his own depths might be worthless. "Self-knowledge"? A contradiction in terms.