Quotes About Productivity

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

I also discovered that many frantically busy full-time housewives were amazed to find that they could polish off in one hour the housework that used to take them six, or was still undone at dinner time, as soon as they started studying, or working, or had some other serious interest outside the home.

Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.

There are loads of people like us. We are all here because we like it here or are married to Britons or both. If I may say so, you are a little more cosmopolitan, possibly even a little more dynamic and productive, sometimes even more adorable and gorgeous, because we are here with you. If you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot. And

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.

Never has anyone milked a single thought more vigorously and successfully than he did. The line for which he is remembered was "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law. It was first elucidated in a comic essay he wrote for The Economist in 1955 while he was a professor at the University of Malaya in Singapore.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion

I am a little dubious about this myself because I think that if you give anyone anywhere an extra twenty minutes, they will just have a cup of coffee. It's what you and I would do. It's what anyone does with twenty minutes.

Post-it notes

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

If we can spread the improved breeds and best practices more broadly—especially crossbreeding African cows to be more productive and making higher-quality feed available and affordable—it'll reduce emissions and help poor farmers earn more money.

The vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past

Extra heat won't be good for the animals we eat and get milk from; it will make them less productive and more prone to dying young, which in turn will make meat, eggs, and dairy more expensive.

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that , Partnership for a Drug-Free America!

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Sloth is the thief of time. The character defect of putting off actions "until things get better" is one of the most destructive detours we can make. Delays never make problems "go away;" they only make success harder to attain.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure of making it shorter.