Quotes About Productivity

To be productive and focused, the rugged individuals in our economy need health security so that our country can remain competitive and agile in the changing economy.

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make sacrifices. Those who are employed have a duty to the future of India. They have to be more productive and consume less so that resources can be made available for investment and for programmes to help poor.

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

There are certain jobs where you can just as easily, in some cases more effectively, work remotely. If you take an engineer, for example, when they get into the mode of coding, being on their own where they're not distracted or interrupted is very helpful.

Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.'

If I'm really hyped to do something, I can do most of an album in a day.

Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

Ideally, I like to make my films within 30-40 days, because if it takes longer than that, everyone involved loses interest.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.

I believe that one should always be contributing towards life and never stay idle.

I am one of those people who cannot sit idle at home; I would get depressed. I have a constant hunger to create and to learn.

I can't sit idle, as I love to work.