Quotes About Productivity

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

It's not important to protect an idea. It's important to protect the time it takes to make it real.

Time spent talking in meetings is not a success metric.

Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given. Once upon a time, he remembered, people and companies just did things. But that ceased to be impressive enough, and for a while they 'actively' did things. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. Meaningless wank-language.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

It is no use wasting our time,

We need to change our idea of what 'work' is. Work is not what creates value for an employer. It's what creates a society. It's what takes up your time.

Life', Alice resolutely told her mother in 1866, 'is meant for work, and not for pleasure.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

If anyone plays the martyr card, staying late or working too much, they're more likely to get a leaflet about efficiency or time management dropped on their desk than any sympathy.

Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

you've heard that some people at work do more creative work, are more productive, work better as a team, or add more value to a client under pressure. But it's not true. Moreover

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.

The best antidote to writer's block is...to write.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.