Quotes About Productivity

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.

When I take to my bed, it's good to know whether I'm sick or just lazy.

If you couldn't find something in thirty seconds, you were losing money, his father always said. Return phone calls immediately was another rule Clay had been taught to obey.

People who would never touch a drop of alcohol can be among the most serious work addicts.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

Busy" is another word for "asshole.

No-Doz and Vivarin to stay awake.

Travelling time to and from work was eliminated when men lived on the site.

What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.

The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.

In the case of 'Walk Between Worlds,' I'm happy to say that it was one of those records that when we were working on it, we would go home at the end of the day with smiles on our faces. We felt it was good work and every song we worked on, they seemed to connect.

In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has significantly more leverage than money in terms of how much energy you get out of time.

A worldwide shift to a shorter working week could cut the CO2 emitted this century by half. Countries with a shorter working week have a smaller ecological footprint.

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?