Quotes About Productivity

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

I definitely need coffee all the time. I drink probably four or five cups a day.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

Money to a writer is time to write.