Quotes About Productivity

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

I don't think you can work properly if you have anxiety about something; it stops you doing the work you're paid to do.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I don't believe in retiring. Your mind stops working then.

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

It's easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more of a right to be called our offices than our offices.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Time tells you what you didn't accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose."73

The owner of an iPod or iPad is in a fundamentally different position: his machine may have far more computational power than a PC of a decade ago, but it is designed for consumption, not creation. Or,

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.