Quotes About Productivity

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Plan your work - work your plan

I dream too much, work too little.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.