Quotes About Productivity

Time is the only thing we cannot replace, apart from our health and our lives. I resent wasting a moment of it. But

Time frittered away attending to tasks easily achieved but relatively inessential to your ultimate goal is wasted—a criminal waste of a precious resource.

How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes.

Enough of this drama; we have work to do…

Many people find that they frequently slip into negative, unproductive moods, and, once in these moods, it can be difficult to shift out of them. We suggest that this happens because most people have an interpretation of mood and emotion that limits their power to observe and change their moods.

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

Every organization should strive to achieve the 3 Rs of Business: Everyone doing the Right things, Doing them Right, and at the Right time.

He himself says that the labor of the theatres is as fertile, as productive as any other (not more so); and this may be doubted; for the best proof that the latter is not so fertile as the former lies in this, that the other is to be called upon to assist it.

man becomes rich in proportion to the remunerative nature of his labor;

There is no doubt that two nations, the same as two men, unconnected with each other, may, by working more, and working better, prosper at the same time, without injuring each other.

The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time. It looks simple at first sight: finish something in two hours instead of three, gain an hour. It's an abstract calculation, though, done as if each hour of the day were like an hour on the clock, absolutely equal. But haste and speed accelerate time, which passes more quickly, and two hours of hurry shorten a day. Every minute is torn apart by being segmented, stuffed to bursting. You can pile a mountain of things into an hour.

Come disse l'umorista americano Will Cuppy: «La forma stessa delle piramidi è la prova che i lavoratori avevano già la tendenza a fare sempre meno».

The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

We all have exactly the same number of minutes in a day. The question is, how will we use them? Most people today are either too busy—or not busy enough. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Every morning you are handed twenty-four golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with your priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted, you cannot get it back.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

Work was its own reward as ever, not least because it was the best way to avoid dwelling on life.

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.

Satanism means 'the opposition' and epitomizes all symbols of nonconformity. Satanism calls forth the strong ability to turn a liability into an advantage, to turn alienation into exclusivity. In other words, the reason it's called Satanism is because it's fun, it's accurate and it's productive.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

working hard keeps you from going crazy

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.