Quotes About Productivity

You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday – he was in his office, writing the books that made the lifestyle possible.

"It's Friday… any plan of being a productive member of society is officially thrown out the window."

I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday.?

"Work hard, nap hard."

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

3. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

One is that if agriculture is to remain productive, it must preserve the land, and the fertility and ecological health of the land; the land, that is, must be used well. A further requirement, therefore, is that if the land is to be used well, the people who use it must know it well, must be highly motivated to use it well, must know how to use it well, must have time to use it well, and must be able to afford to use it well.

But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.