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Quotes About Productivity

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
~ Hannah More
What has not wasting time impaired?
~ Horace
You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
~ Jimmy Page
We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.
~ Joshua Ferris
I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!
~ Laurence Kotlikoff
I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
~ Martha Stewart
If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
~ Mason Cooley
We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.
~ Mick Mulvaney
I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.
~ Minnie Driver
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
~ Norman Mailer
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.
~ Peter Drucker
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons
~ Scott Adams
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
~ Sherry Turkle
I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.
~ Sia Furler
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
~ Steven Moffat
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
~ Tom Peters
During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.
~ Rob Crow
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.
~ Robert Barry
Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.
~ Robert Pozen
If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.
~ Robert Pozen
The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.
~ Robin Sharma