Quotes About Productivity

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.