Quotes About Productivity

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

people with negative attitudes don't have a learner's heart. Dumping such individuals off your team will hurt in the short run, but not in the long run. You have to remember that star performers with an attitude put a constant drag on everyone else. The price you pay for their performance is constant agitation. People with negative attitudes can't help but stir the pot.

Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.

Our steps toward a more productive spiritual path begin with recognizing the need for change. We can no longer afford to seek analog solutions to digital problems.

Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.

As a professional programmer, you should know that trying to be focused and "productive" 60 hours a week is not a sensible thing to do.

Trying to write on a deadline is like trying to have an orgasm with a gun to your head.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

Since the first Industrial Revolution, the average real income per person in OECD economies has increased around 2,900%.

Productivity is the most important determinant of long-term growth and rising living standards so its absence, if maintained throughout the forth industrial revolution, means that we will have less of each.

Den, der raster, ruster.

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to occupy himself, to work. Woe to those who lead slothful lives. Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood. If not, when we are old it can never be cured.' Pinocchio

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.

civilized disdain has turned out to be surprisingly productive in creating human bonds of lasting value. The mental discipline required for civilized disdain may be crucial for the type of world citizenship that will allow fruitful cooperation across ideological divides.

People are looking for efficient and convenient ways to simplify their life, save time, and make more money.

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

I said, why can't the world all convert to using Macs? Everything takes longer and is harder on a PC.

Mindfulness puts you in charge of where you place your attention. Then, when you are less preoccupied with concerns and worries, you have more energy available to attend to your work.

If you reduce your levels of distraction and stress, errors are less likely.

Yo no comprendo cómo dice la gente que se aburre. A mí nunca me da tiempo para todo lo que quisiera hacer.