Quotes About Productivity

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

How often do you find yourself saying, "In a minute", "I'll get to it" or "Tomorrow's good enough" and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it's got to be done, so let's get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is.

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!

there is a world of difference between being productive and being fruitful,

As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output of published material has been a bit under 3 million words, and over the past 30 years I've written about 15 million words of email, and altogether typed perhaps 50 million words—and in just the past couple of years I've spoken more than 10 million words on livestreams. And, yes, I'll train a bot from all of that.)

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.

Procrastinators will weigh you down. Action is the prescription for moving forward. Action will eliminate boredom. Procrastinators are waiting, and they often create more excuses to continue waiting: It isn't the right time; I'm going to wait until it's sunny outside; I got up late; I called them and they didn't pick up the phone; they didn't reply to my email. Procrastinators are going nowhere. Do not let them impede your journey to success.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once.

developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code

Spend your time on the 20 percent of the refactorings that provide 80 percent of the benefit.

Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor

University, over 40 percent of what you do on a daily

Puff, at her desk, happily humming to herself.

Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.

The word of the age is "multitasking"—shorthand for the idea that I'm paying attention to very little while giving the impression that I'm intently following five things.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.