Quotes About Productivity

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

There's never a better time to be that person than when you're in a relationship that you want to become a source of peace and productivity rather than anger and regret.

Ohno is credited with the saying that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." The result is the most productive automotive manufacturing system in the world today, which is sustaining its lead despite every attempt by its rivals to copy it. It has its origins in the need to overcome a constraint.

We spent a lot of time talking about this choice, and we realized that as long as we are going to be at work, we might as well have the best day we can have.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

People often ask me: "Oh, how do you find the time to write books?" I say: "You never find it. You won't find it. You have to create it.

You do have choices about how you spend your time. Balancing what you need to do with what you want to do can lead to happiness and success.

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.

S × E)T = R ([Strategy times Execution] multiplied by Trust equals Results)

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.