Quotes About Productivity

Time Warrior is much more than tips and tricks.

When I write a book without a writing schedule, it is really a nightmare

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.

A leader continuously communicates the benefits of an ever-changing organization. A leader endorses an organization that is continuously reinventing itself to higher and higher levels of productivity and innovation.

One does not 'manage' people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths andd knowledge of each individual - Peter Drucker

One does not 'manage' people. The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of each individual - Peter Drucker

A carefully planned meeting can take a third of the time that an unplanned free-for-all takes.

It is impossible to work with a definite sense of purpose and be depressed at the same time. Carefully planned work will motivate you to do more and worry less.

how "violent" a swordsman you are going to be before your day begins. How much uninterrupted time will you carve out for yourself? Will you be a true time warrior? Because if you will, you'll love your timeless time.

Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that's what you'll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that's what you'll get. A whole lot of results.

you must begin by building a track record of finished tasks.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do.

Even if you do a few things right, such as making high use of modern programming practices, you might still make a mistake that nullifies your productivity gains.

You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover

Hurrying to solve a problem is one of the most time-ineffective things you can do.

it's done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

code reading detected about 80 percent more faults per hour than testing

Just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.

The modern world demands that we all think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally; that we think from a different angle, with a different set of muscles, with a different set of expectations; that we think with neither fear nor favor, with neither blind optimism nor sour skepticism. That we think like—ahem—a Freak.

una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de la persona está ya en otro sitio.

What does tenure do? It distorts people's effort so that they face strong incentives early in their career (and presumably work very hard early on as a consequence) and very weak incentives forever after (and presumably work much less hard on average as a consequence).

After all, just because you're at the office is no reason to stop thinking.