Quotes About Productivity

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That's 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.

To be fruitful is to understand the process of growth

Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals!

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.

Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

The amount of work per capita increases with the evolution of culture and the amount of leisure per capita decreases.

Era utile avere qualcosa da fare durante il giorno, svegliarsi sapendo di avere un compito da svolgere e sentirsi realizzati una volta portatolo a termine.

Call your most energetic hours A time. Your goal is to protect your A time from all the B and C tasks that tend to fill it up. B tasks require alertness and focus, but not necessarily your best creative energy. C tasks are mostly rote—work that doesn't require as much insight or creativity as writing does. Start valuing yourself enough to assign A time to A tasks, B time to B tasks, and C time to C tasks.

Activity does not mean achievement

A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results

Rosie, let's get to work

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.