Quotes About Productivity

He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

If you want something done, give it to someone who's busy!

It's a well-known fact. It's well known at the organic level, like a lot of other well-known facts which overrule the observations of the senses. This is because if people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done.*

the simple idea that behaviors drive results.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.

This isn't about perfection. Far from it. It's simply about getting better — better in systematic and concrete ways that improve the company's bottom line.

every person who is burning time and energy seeking justification is doing so at the expense of the contribution he or she could be making to the overall results of the company.

When you work with your computer for three or four hours, you are totally lost. It's like eating french fries. You shouldn't eat french fries all day, and you shouldn't be on the computer all day.

In Italy managers are judged simply by results.

I don't know, and certainly I've been guilty of making a judgment about a celebrity, but there's a part of me that's like, 'Why don't you take the time you're spending ripping James Franco and go do something you like?'

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

What a great situation to be in, juggling two shows, with films in between.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

My creative juices flow seasonally.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.

I've always been a keen waker-upper. I very quickly get bored just lying in bed.

I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

I am single and enjoying it. My work is keeping me busy.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.