Quotes About Productivity

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

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

So for any new checklist created from scratch, you have to pick the type that makes the most sense for the situation. The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory.

about whether the person could safely be kept on the job, and about how things might be turned around.

The checklist cannot be lengthy. A rule of thumb some use is to keep it to between five and nine items, which is the limit of working memory. Boorman didn't think one had to be religious on this point. "It

To avoid fatigue and inattention, he did his work over the course of a week

see the anger for what it is: fuel. Pissed-off people can accomplish a lot if they don't just spray their rage fuel all over the place

If you loathe your job, the situation is improved if you can do it in your underwear. Drunk. *

Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here.

work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I am a marvelously effective procrastinator. I get right to it. And yet, over these thirty days, I never wrote fewer than two pages a day and sometimes wrote as many as ten. I have once or twice before in my life written this much in a single month, but never with such ease and pleasure. Maybe I've turned into one of those clone robots of myself my therapist asked me to imagine! I

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Never Consume more than you produce.

Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Haw empezaba a comprender la diferencia entre actividad y productividad.

They liked working in a company that valued action and results.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

The executives that ran Lehman Bros. into the ground several years ago had a macho culture that abhorred personal time. One executive was pressured to go to the office while his wife was actually delivering a baby.[18] Whether such assiduity resulted in a better work product has now been pretty definitively ascertained.

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.

The businessmen spoke little and did much, while the politicians did as little as possible and spoke much.

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.

I suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.