Quotes About Productivity

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

I hate wasting people's time.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.