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Quotes About Productivity

I don't like idle time.
~ Lou Williams
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
~ Victor Hugo
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
~ Tim Ferriss
Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
~ Jupiter Hammon
Being idly hanging around, and that's not good for an actor to do.
~ John de Lancie
If I could be working every day, I would be.
~ Melanie Lynskey
I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
~ Garrett Clayton
Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.
~ Bobby Deol
I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.
~ Stephen Karam
It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.
~ Maria Konnikova
I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.
~ Fei-Fei Li
I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.
~ Delphine Arnault
I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.
~ Lucy Boynton
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
~ Ang Lee
When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff.
~ Jon Hopkins
Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.
~ Rick Ross
I work in an impatient way.
~ Cy Twombly
I'm kind of impatient. I like to see things realized and not just work on a project for three years and wait, wait, wait. I try to keep myself busy.
~ Henrik Fisker
After I had written a paper or letter for Bohr, I always had the impression that I had learned something which I could use for my own work. And somehow, I never felt that I had too little time for my own work. I always found time.
~ Werner Heisenberg
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
~ Yoko Ono
My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.
~ Mike Mignola
Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
~ Matt Mullenweg
If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.
~ Ruskin Bond