Quotes About Productivity

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

If you're a ball stopper, usually you're inefficient.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

I don't like downtime, and I just am too insecure that I'll not work again if I don't start the ball rolling on the next round of things. Everything takes so long to make and come to fruition.

I do love Instagram, but even if I spend 15 minutes looking at stuff, I feel guilty.

I started my own chat show on Instagram, that also takes time. Then, I have also been singing and painting. I actually enjoy the down time that I get.

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

I think it's really important, especially with the work space, to create a place that makes people feel creative, where they feel safe, and they feel like they're instantly connected.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn't always easy.

She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most, so what else is there to do but drink?

The newer arrangement requires less jumping back and forth from row to row; with the QWERTY keyboard, a good typists' fingertips travel more than twelve miles a day, jumping from row to row. These unnecessary intricate movements cause mental tension, typist fatigue, and lead to more typographical errors.

The civi service is a place where, in the stairs, those who arrive late bump into those who leave early!

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.