Quotes About Productivity

I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.

You should be happy to spend ten to twelve hours a day wherever you work.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

Having children has made me incredibly efficient. It's hard to leave them in the mornings, but I'm extremely productive during the day, knowing I want to be fully focused on them when I get home.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.