Quotes About Productivity

time (and other) pressure might make you feel more creative, but it does not help you do higher-quality work. In

Time pressure may drive people to get more done, but it causes them to think less creatively." This same effect can be seen in teams.

I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

Tatsächlich hat der arbeitende Mensch heute nicht mehr die Muße, sein Leben Tag für Tag wirklich sinnvoll zu gestalten.Wahrhaft menschliche Beziehungen zu seinen Mitmenschen kann er sich nicht leisten; es würde den Marktwert seiner Arbeit herabsetzen. Es fehlt ihm an Zeit, etwas anderes zu sein als eine Maschine.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then throwing them back again, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

for the devil finds employment for the idle

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.

Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.

Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

the devil finds employment for the idle —

He has no time to be anything but a machine. How

Mas o trabalho manual, mesmo quando se torna quase enfadonho e pesado, talvez nunca seja a pior forma de ociosidade

La mayoría de los hombres, incluso en este país relativamente libre, se afanan tanto por los puros artificios e innecesarias labores de la vida, que no les queda tiempo para cosechar sus mejores frutos.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or

si un hombre se adentra en los bosques por amor a ellos cada mañana, está en peligro de ser considerado un vago; pero si gasta su día completo especulando, cortando esos mismos bosques, y haciendo que la tierra se quede calva antes de tiempo, es un estimado y emprendedor ciudadano. Como si un pueblo no pudiese tener otro interés en un bosque que el de cortarlo

Si un hombre pasea por el bosque por placer todos los días, corre el riesgo de que le tomen por un haragán, pero si dedica el día entero a especular cortando bosques y dejando la tierra árida antes de tiempo, se le estima por ser un ciudadano trabajador y emprendedor. ¡Como si una ciudad no tuviera más interés en sus bosques que el de talarlos!