Quotes About Productivity

Each of us has the same number of hours in his day, the same number of days in his year, and the chief difference between the success and the failure lies in the use to which the hours' and the days are put.

Industry conduces to longevity. It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Early to bed and early to rise...makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

He touched the keyboard and the terminal displayed a list of all the activities he usually engaged in, then scanned through them. He could touch a key and it would go directly to the activity he wanted, skipping dozens of preliminaries, saving him many painful minutes of typing one character at a time.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Time is a waste of money.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

Most of the time, you'll be able to structure your work day around your peak energy times and your family's needs, rather than your employer's policies.

You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

For one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. The brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

Work gets done in the time available.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.