Quotes About Productivity

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

The myth that we must have "time"—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

The myth that we must have "time"—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for "more," we are forever discounting what is offered.

The obsession with time is really an obsession with perfection.

Trying to do "one more thing," we do much less.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

The myth that we must have time - more time - in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. If we are forever yearning for more, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't ... your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you are doing is just plain junk ... stop judging yourself and just let yourself write.

Todos aquellos enfados, quejas, miserias que vuelcas al papel por las mañanas son precisamente las cosas que se interponen entre tú y tu creatividad

Whole plots can be stitched up while we sew. As artists, we can very literally reap what we sew.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

Remember that it is far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.

It is better to waste your old age than to do nothing at all with it.

We all have different skill sets, interests, concentration cycles, and energy levels. The key is to find out how long it really takes YOU to do the things you need to do and move away from wishful thinking.

I never pick up the phone unless I know who it is and I'm scheduled to talk to that person at that time.

We're going to be busy.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Dieses frühzeitiges Aufstehen macht einem ganz blödsinnig. Man muss sein Schlaf haben...

Will wasn't a fan of multitasking, mostly because it was more like half-tasking. It was humanly impossible to give two different things your complete attention.