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Quotes About Productivity

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
~ Jerome Lawrence
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
~ Letitia Landon
A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.
~ Chanel Iman
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
~ William Faulkner
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
~ Shirley Hazzard
I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
~ Karl Malden
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
~ James Ling
You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.
~ Bill Buford
The more I work, the more I want to work.
~ Joan Miro
Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!
~ Bill Haywood
All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
~ William Randolph Hearst
Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.
~ Susan Wojcicki
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
~ Walter Chrysler
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
~ Audre Lorde
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.
~ Leonard Sweet
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
~ Cato the Elder
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
~ Peter Drucker
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
~ Glenn Frey
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
~ Jose Marti
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
~ Cy Twombly
I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.
~ Kemmons Wilson
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
~ Thomas Aquinas