Quotes About Productivity

Love in the Phalanstery is no longer, as it is with us, a recreation which detracts from work; on the contrary it is the soul and the vehicle, the mainspring, of all works and of the whole of universal attraction.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Idleness is the mother of vice.

A man who thinks about business continually for eight hours is injuring his productive potential as much as he is abusing his body, cramping his mind, and ultimately losing his sense of humor and perspective... When work presses down most heavily, a 10-minute walk or a quiet cup of coffee with a crossword puzzle can restore efficiency to an amazing degree...

This meeting could have been an e-mail.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

It's Monday. Grab some coffee and be awesome!

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

...since a lunch was cancelled because of the snow, I was suddenly given a few hours of unexpected time and managed to get down a poem that had been pursuing me for days.

The stereotype is that a poet shoots his load at 25 years old and goes around the rest of his life doddering.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.