Quotes About Productivity

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

Work as smart as you are able.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.