Quotes About Productivity

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

Farming is a most senseless pursuit, a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap, and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Performance releases pressure.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.