Quotes About Productivity

Nothing in the world terrifies me more than to have the words stop coming. If I can't write, I could be of no use.

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

perfectionism didn't foster a healthy work ethic; instead, it promoted workaholic behaviour. And workaholism is another compulsion—you work because you feel anxious when you're not working.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time

worrying can lead to stress. What do we accomplish when we worry? Focus your mind on actions rather than on worrying! Action brings less stress

We need to maintain a proper balance in our life by allocating the time we have. There are occasions where saying no is the best time management practice there is.

watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

On the way up the walk I took in the weedless border gardens, the two floors of smudgeless windows, and I wondered, when a person does all this, do they have time left over for other things?

It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

value of face time: never write a memo if you can make a phone call, never make a phone call if you can meet in person.

Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I always have something going on.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everyone's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation or productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a communist economy than our own market economy.

Multitasking, another opponent of focus, is something we do all the time—and it's actually rewiring our brains in a way that makes it difficult for us to sustain focus when needed. In fact, we can lose up to 40 percent of our productivity when we multitask.[7]

A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

Forget yourself and get to work.

Lunch is for wimps.