Quotes About Productivity

Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

Advanced technology changes the way we work and the skills we need, but it also boosts productivity and creates new jobs.

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.