Quotes About Productivity

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

Creating anything new is incredibly difficult. It's just so much easier to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and just consume.

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

I work late nights catching up on emails, and then, in the mornings, I just hop on my laptop right away. Then, every other day, I'll hop into the shower! My husband is horrified that I don't shower every day.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I wake up around nine, drink a cup of coffee, answer some emails, and ease myself into the day.

I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.