Quotes About Productivity

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

So much to do; so little done.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.