Quotes About Productivity

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst. – William Penn

You'll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don't trust your brain.

Calling someone to reschedule wastes time and creates work for the other person. The time I've spent fixing double bookings in my life is time I'll never get back.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

the worst waste, that of time.

Whatever opinion may be formed of the extent of his dissipation in Dumfries, one fact is unquestionable, that his powers remained unimpaired to the last; it was there he produced his finest lyrics, and they are the finest, as well as the purest, that ever delighted mankind.

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

For me, my phone is a one-stop shop; I do everything on my phone - email, browsing, listening to music, reading, navigation and using smart apps. Maps, I use that a lot. I think that's the best app ever.

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

I think people become reliant on coffee. And that can't necessarily be a good thing.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

One of the most powerful insights in economics is this idea of a division of labor. You do the thing you're good at. Other people do something else that they're good at. The net effect is better for everybody.