Quotes About Productivity

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

We must fill our infinite days with something.

But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.

You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

Ant shrugged. "What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?

Attacking the supposedly 'moral' critique of the love of money and worldly goods, he argued that 'at a time when the whole world was living in "pain economy" … and when the productivity of human labour was extremely low … it is but natural that moralists should have preached the gospel of poverty and renunciation of worldly pleasures only because they were not to be had

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Put simply, hyper-rational executives produce hyper-boring products.

Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.

Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.

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

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." — Og Mandino

Productivity isn't about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil... . It's more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time." —Margarita Tartakovsky

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Multitasking is a scam.

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.