Quotes About Productivity

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

It is no rest to be idle.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

He is idle that might be better employed.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

When I record in a studio. I know that on Tuesday at 3 o'clock I've got to go be creative.

It's fine to keep releasing tune after tune if you can keep up with that pace but I can't. I'm not the guy that will have the hot tune every month. That's not me!

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

The Hudson River Tunnel is a chokepoint for the financial center - and most productive region - of the United States. It is the most heavily trafficked piece of rail in the entire country and even a partial closure will suffocate our nation's economy.

You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That's how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.

Guru's like Tupac. He just records and records and records.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.