Quotes About Productivity

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

Work, work, work. I like to keep myself busy. I start to get a little stir-crazy during downtime. That's when I turn to working out - running, hitting the gym, etc.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

I think work begets work.

Good work instead of long prayers.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.