Quotes About Productivity

Traction equals satisfaction

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

The first thing to remember is that it's not about you, it's about them. If an employee can't do the job, then they have to go. The last thing you want is employees who are holding your business back or who are demoralizing their coworkers. Your credibility depends on getting rid of such people as soon as possible.

Go get yourself a nice cup of tea while Windows copies half a million files to your hard disk and reboots a few times.

At the heart of any language, then, is the poetic productivity of expressive speech. A living language is continually being made and remade, woven out of the silence by those who speak.… And this silence is that of our wordless participations, of our perceptual immersion in the depths of an animate, expressive world.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

You can do anything, but not everything.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Won't get done by looking at it!

He appears to hit the office when he feels inspired. Spending a few hours working heatedly before the creative impulse evaporates and he leaves the study.

Whenever someone tells me she is a procrastinator, I respond by asking them, "Did you eat this week?" Of course, the person will always answer yes. The fact is, no one procrastinates all the time. What you may be is a selective procrastinator -- which means that if something is important enough (like eating), you are perfectly capable of taking care of it right away.

The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

Pooh and Piglet were sitting together over breakfast at that pleasant time of the day when you know that there is much to be done but not quite yet.

Love the rain especially when I am writing or designing, my creativity is extra focused.

Imagine what you will do once you learn to refocus all the energy used in regret on over to baking more cakes.

I can and do work 16-hour days but solely by choice now as I could sleep for a year and nothing would miss a beat only because I fought through my life plans every step of the way and steered clear of drama, bs and haters.