Quotes About Productivity

In the big parlor room where we cut it there was no air conditioning so we had to keep going outside between takes. But that was the way I liked it anyway. I don't like air conditioning to start with. It's hard to cut songs in air conditioned rooms where all the good air is gone. In the courtyard, it was raining soup.

Eventually Porter developed a routine and would bring in two to 10 decision memos for him to sign each day. Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things, and he had an up-and-down penmanship that looked authoritative in black Magic Marker.

Les gens perdent leur temps à vivre, alors, il ne leur en reste plus pour travailler.

Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day's work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells.

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. . . .

The feeling one must get up earlier and earlier to get ahead of the day, which by one o'clock is determined.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

Arquivo de riqueza no 11 As pessoas ricas preferem ser remuneradas por seus resultados. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre preferem ser remuneradas pelo tempo que despendem.

PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: Si tu motivación para adquirir dinero o éxito procede de una raíz no productiva, como el miedo, la rabia o la necesidad de «demostrar lo que vales», el dinero nunca te reportará felicidad.

It is hard to sit down to write, or work on other creative projects, if we are "beside ourselves" rather than centered from the core on out.

An idle mind is the Devil's seedbed.

In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.

Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.

Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

The lack of a free weekend keeps more blockbusters bestsellers from being written than you can imagine.

Solitude encourages reflection and productivity, if you're prepared for it.

Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.

yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.