Quotes About Productivity

The pain of having once been young, with muscles, still able to work. To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Less energy on emotions, more energy on solutions" is a useful perspective most employers would like all of their employees to employ.

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.

You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

I learned that programming was mostly typing. To this day, I don't understand why software development takes so long.

A healthy society leads to lower healthcare costs, improved productivity at work and a better quality of life for citizens. Food is a big part of public health. About time we knew what we are putting in our mouths.

There are many who measure what they are doing by what they can report. They go out with garrulity in the morning, and come back with statistics at night.

Overwork started his illness, kept it alight, and killed him, poor devil. Write him off to the System — one man to take the work of two and a half men.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It's hard getting away from the office when you work from home.

That's the trouble with other work-from-home types… sometimes they're actually working.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work, or daytime television.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man. Cicero has termed them intercisiva tempora, and the ancients were not ignorant of their value; nay, it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate, while under the operation of rubbing after the bath.

Employment is essential to our purity, happiness, and well-being.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

No sooner do I get interested than bang! goes my sleep, and I have to stop a week or ten days, during which my ideas get all cold again.

Writing — a race to the typewriter keys before that brilliant idea flees

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Your lean process should be a lean process.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

...even the best worker cannot beat a bad system...