Quotes About Productivity

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

Live in day-tight compartments.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really leads only to self-torture.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

The busy have no time for tears.