Quotes About Productivity

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

You're here mainly because I hate to see waste. I like to create. I like to repair.

Paul teaches us many things in his letter to Philemon. Two of them are that we should take time to develop deep friendships and that we should write letters to communicate in an in-depth manner with our friends. These are two more things we can do to make leisure productive!

If you're only using your bed for sleep, then don't bother waking up.

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become quite sociable, which you have to watch out for. There are a lot of people you can pop out and have a coffee with.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

People complain about not having a social life and always working. But I enjoy working.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.

The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

I focus on my work while some people unnecessarily complicate life.

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

I just know that I'mma do something in life. I'mma do something productive.