Quotes About Productivity

Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Hey, I work one full hour a day!

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Forget yourself and get to work.

I don't do well when I don't work.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.