Quotes About Productivity

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.

The secret of success in life is time rightly used.

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.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand

Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

I better put on my tool belt so I can think," and

If people are not inspired from within, it will not be possible to build a good work ethic. Work

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Write a list of 10 things you need to finish or start that you haven't. It may be a home improvement project or a plan to get out of debt.

Forced idleness is a terrible thing.

Conservation of energy," said Churchill, "Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

frase de Escipión, que de sí mismo dijo que nunca estuvo más activo que cuando no tuvo nada que hacer y nunca menos solo que cuando estaba solo consigo mismo.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.

One funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that's what I tell myself so I don't feel quite as crappy when I've just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.

If only I could bottle up the drowsiness that plagued me during the day so I could use it at bedtime. - Amanda Rosenbloom

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.