Quotes About Productivity

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

I work best inundated with things when it's like raining information.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.