Quotes About Productivity

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

There's so many other things that I can do with my time besides just worry about what the next man is doing, ya feel me?

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

I remember working with a guy named Andrew Braccia at Yahoo, and Yahoo was the company that bought Flickr. Everyone on his team was hard working and reliable, did what they said they were going to do, on top of everything, and seemed to be operating at this level of productivity and effectiveness that I found difficult to manage to.

I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

I know, when I'm 30 or 31 years old, I know I'll be productive because I don't depend solely on my athletic ability to get open and get yards. It's more my mind.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film.

I love what I do, and I don't think I'm the guy who can do, like, a movie a year and that's it. I don't know what I'd do! I've already put stuff independently on the Internet cause I'm bored! I just want to keep going!

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

When I came back from the military and completed a 4-year degree in 2 1/2 years, I developed the extraordinary habits needed to get a lot done in a very short period of time!

We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.