Quotes About Productivity

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

Less land, less time, more crop.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

When ever I get the urge to write, I lie down and it usually passes.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Gäbe es die letzte Minute nicht, so würde niemals etwas fertig.

Bekase why: would a wise man ant to live in de mid's er such a blimblammin' all de time? No--'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factory when he want to res'.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Es ist idiotisch, sieben oder acht Monate an einem Roman zu schreiben, wenn man in jedem Buchladen für zwei Dollar einen kaufen kann.

Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.

Wake & Bake. More like Wash & Bake. Half a bowl of cereal and a shot of bourbon later, I'm there, my friendly haze having finally arrived. I'm ready for work.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Churchill was in his element; work and a clear plan.

Hypomania is protective. Hypomanic insensitivity prevents others' negative reactions from interfering with and decelerating the creative flow.

Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. What we find when we enter these mortal plains is existence; but existence is the raw material out of which all life must be created. A productive and happy life is not something that you find; it is something that you make. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found ready-made; it must be created by the fact of contact.

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.