Quotes About Productivity

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Make hay while the sun shines.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.