Quotes About Productivity

Meetings: They often include at least one moron who inevitably gets his turn to waste everyone's time with nonsense.

Time-management hacks, life hacks, sleep hacks, work hacks. These all reflect an obsession with trying to squeeze more time out of the day, but rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn't the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.

Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.

2.3.06.02.087: Unnecessary sharpening of pencils constitutes a waste of public resources, and will be punished as appropriate.

If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

If they opt out, bless them—because you won't have to waste time, money, or hopes on them.

Le he dicho mil veces que los argumentos más productivos utilizan el tiempo futuro, el lenguaje de las elecciones y las decisiones.

Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

But I do not use the Internet, because I know myself too well. Once I got on the Internet I would get so distracted, I'd be basically giving one of my books to the Internet because I wouldn't be writing. I'd be playing on that machine. Interview by Associated Press Nov 03, 2010

The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,' she said, then smiled, 'including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.

The really important difficulty is the place, room, cave, cabin to write in. – Jean Rhys

Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ahí la más incómoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.

Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

She snuggled into bed with them, looking up from time to time, saying she was sorry, she knew she should be doing something more productive, but like Dad, she had her addictions, and one of hers was reading.

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.