Quotes About Productivity

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.

I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

I tend to write in the mornings.

Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.