Quotes About Productivity

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.

You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don't work. You live on your phones, you live off your parents, while the rest of us make life easy for you by paying you to sit on your asses connected to the Internet." He

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Two of the most productive writers in history, Voltaire and Balzac, were also among the greatest coffee addicts in history. So far, caffeine hasn't made me nearly that productive, but I can hope.

quiddling' (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).

Don't worry. I always channel my emotions into my work.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

We typically don't talk about something until we are about to ship. Not just for AI, but for anything: the comparison is generally what we are shipping compared to what someone else is talking about that is going to happen sometime in the future. A lot of people sell futures, I guess, is the way to think about it.

Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.