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Quotes About Productivity

I just have work to do; I just do it.
~ Ian MacKaye
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
~ John C. Maxwell
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.
~ Carl Honore
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
~ Benicio Del Toro
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
~ Noam Chomsky
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
~ Charles Spurgeon
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No life can be dreary when work is delight.
~ Frances Ridley Havergal
I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.
~ I. M. Pei
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.
~ Charles L. Allen
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
~ Shawn Achor
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
~ Umberto Eco
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
~ Albert Einstein
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
~ Bill Gates
Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
~ Albert Camus
If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?
~ Mark T Bertolini
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
~ Brian Eno
The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
~ William Weld
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
~ Jonny Greenwood
All play and no work makes me a happy girl
~ Carole Radziwill
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.
~ Simon Baker