Quotes About Productivity

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

I really like keeping my kitchen counters as clear as possible. I tend to function better when there's less clutter.

Hackathons are an amazing way to engage the team, foster collaboration, and knock out great work.

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

GDP is a function of capital, labour and how productively you use both.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

The term "productivity" is an economic measure referring to averages, not the well-being of individuals. Excess fertility and musculature are not the criteria that we use to judge the well-being of human beings, and they are not indices of avian well-being either. They more likely signify the opposite.

Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it.

There aren't many crimes in my book. Not many sins either. But top on both of those lists is killing time. Have fun with it, make something cool, play video games, work hard if you feel like it, but do something. Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

The results of taking on too much is that nothing gets done. Or it doesn't get done well.

Freed capacity is the result of process time reduction through the elimination of wasteful activities and/or optimizing work.

Removing work effort may require the team to eliminate not merely the work activities, but also the need for that effort.

I bet you make lists. I bet you get up every freaking morning and write down everything you have to do for the day and check it off when it's done. I bet you set aside a certain time to return phone calls. I bet your closet is organized by color. I bet your bookshelves are alphabetized