Quotes About Productivity

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies—and worry because they never seem to get their work done.

Don't you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

Good Working Habit No. 1: Clear Your Desk of All Papers Except Those Relating to the Immediate Problem at Hand.

Dr. Sadler opened up the drawers of his desk. All empty—except for supplies. "Tell me," said the patient, "where do you keep your unfinished business?" "Finished!" said Sadler. "And where do you keep your unanswered mail?" "Answered!" Sadler told him. "My rule is never to lay down a letter until I have answered it. I

measure my accomplishments," said Daniel W. Josselyn, "not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not." He said, "When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking.

Nh?ng công vi?c ? ngay trÆ°á»›c m?t ta ph?i coi là quan tr?ng nh?t, và ??ng b?n tâm tá»›i nh?ng công vi?c còn m? m? t? xa

When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

Idle women are always ready to mind other people's business.

From what people who are on Facebook say, it's a colossal waste of time, but what I don't get is why they're always on it anyway. . . .

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess." The

Deje las cosas para más adelante.

When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.

It made me cringe, but dammit, it got things done.

order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

desktop. The screen could have many documents and folders on it, and you could use a mouse to point

Hertzfeld replied that he needed a couple more days to finish the Apple II product he was in the middle of. "What's more important than working on the Macintosh?" Jobs demanded. Hertzfeld explained that he needed to

As long as I am able to work, I must not and will not complain, because work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.