Quotes About Productivity

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention," Lincoln was wont to say.

Roosevelt seemed to feel," Harrison remarked, "that everything ought to be done before sundown.

Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well

TR regarded procrastination as a sin. Preparing ahead - Freedom from anxiety.

Such people, such individuals, will be a most productive yeast and ferment, and lucky the society who has plenty of them.

I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

To succeed as you want, you have to be precise; you have to have polish; you have to carry polish and precision into everything you do. You have no time to sigh over seigneuries and begrudge other people their gifts. Lack of genius never held anyone back," said Lymond. "Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

I hate writing, but I love having written.

I hate writing, I love having written

As we will see below, when a female slave's role as worker conflicted with that of childbearer, concern for high productivity often outweighed concern for high fertility.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

So the hours are pretty good then?" he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. "Yeah," he said, "but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

I love deadlines," he has said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." ? Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.") He died in May 2001—too young. His

I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.")

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.