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Quotes About Productivity

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
~ Yahya Jammeh
People think, 'Well, because you're at Google, you can work from anywhere.' Yes, you can work from anywhere, but many just commute to offices... Working from the office is really important.
~ Patrick Pichette
The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.
~ Jason Fried
We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.
~ Takeoff
Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.
~ Alexander Grothendieck
I find in L.A. that you ask people how they're doing, and the immediate answer is, 'Oh, I'm very busy,' as if busy is the goal.
~ Frank Grillo
I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
~ Maggie Cheung
If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
~ Jeff Bridges
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.
~ Bradley Beal
The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.
~ Jamie Hewlett
For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.
~ Fred Armisen
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
~ David Chang
I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.
~ Piyush Goyal
Punctuality is but the thief of time
~ Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time.
~ Oscar Wilde
Industry is the root of all ugliness.
~ Oscar Wilde
We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
~ Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
~ Oscar Wilde
Morning people use up their perky too early and end up being just plain grumpy.
~ P.C. Cast
Magic Success Formula for Writing: Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and write!
~ Pam Zollman
Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Do not while away your time in idleness. A great many people occupy themselves with inconsequential activities. Ask them what they have been doing and they will usually say, "Oh, I have been busy every minute!" But they can scarcely remember what they were so busy about!
~ Paramhansa Yogananda