Quotes About Productivity

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

It only takes me about four days to write an album. It don't take that long. I just gotta have the feeling. If I don't have the feeling, it's a different story. I gotta be in the mood.

If I don't do anything for two or three days in a row, I feel really grumpy. My mood changes.

I am very moody and I work only when I feel like it.

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

Morning is when I do all my best work.

I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

I would say that I'm definitely a morning person - I love getting out of bed and seizing the day ahead.

I'm not an early morning person.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older two kids at school then write for a few hours.

I know that if I don't work out in the mornings before my day gets started, I won't get to the gym at all that day.

I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm not on set for the day. I take our dog, Milo, for a walk before having a light breakfast and settling down to write.

I work in the mornings almost exclusively.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

I spend a fair amount of time dealing with email, mostly deleting them or skimming them to get a sense of what is going on.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'