Quotes About Productivity

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

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

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

Encontre o seu equilíbrio e o seu mundo organiza-se. Quando traz um propósito para a sua vida, conhece as suas prioridades e conquista uma produtividade elevada na prioridade que é mais importante todos os dias, a sua vida ganha sentido e o extraordinário torna-se possível.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Procrastination is a part of perfectionism in some people. Those who procrastinate don't do anything. By not doing anything, they can't fail. It's an inhibiting, self-defeating cycle.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ìwhat is the most valuable use of my time right now?

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

An engineer's skills are like the blade of a knife: you may spend tens of thousands of dollars to find engineers with the sharpest skills for your team, but if you "use" that knife for years without sharpening it, you will wind up with a dull knife that is inefficient, and in some cases useless.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Now get to work, bitch!

You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.

And you can go to places in your head and imagine things in the future in ways that a lot of people have a hard time doing. That's dissociation. It's healthy, healing, and productive. That is why people need to be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology, as strictly negative behavior. It can also be an incredible strength.

Too Busy I've folded all my laundry and put it in the drawer. I've changed my linen, made my bed, and swept my bedroom floor. I've emptied out the garbage and fixed tomorrow's lunch. I've baked some cookies for dessert and given dad a munch. I've searched the house for pencils and sharpened every one. There are so many things to do when homework must be done.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.