Quotes About Productivity

To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon the community, and the children—if

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.6

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

The neutral zone takes a heavy toll on most people's self-confidence because it is a period of lowered productivity and diminished feelings of competence. It may also, if it resonates with past difficulties in a person's life, activate serious problems of low self-esteem. For that reason people are likely to need some fairly quick successes if they are to return to their former effectiveness.

Never do today what you can Put off till tomorrow.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

It has been suggested that an army of monkeys might be trained to pound typewriters at random in the hope that ultimately great works of literature would be produced. Using a coin for the same purpose may save feeding and training expenses and free the monkeys for other monkey business.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Capital is force, human energy stored or accumulated, and

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

Now who is the Forgotten Man? He is the simple, honest laborer, ready to earn his living by productive work. We pass him by because he is independent, self-supporting, and asks no favors. He does not appeal to the emotions or excite the sentiments. He

Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but

He that thinks he works for a song, as we say, will not sing at his work

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.

Sprawl is bad aesthetics; it is bad economics. Five acres are being made to do the work of one, and do it very poorly.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.