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Quotes About Productivity

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
~ Havelock Ellis
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
~ Helmut Jahn
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.
~ Henry Ford
I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
~ Henry Rollins
I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.
~ Henry Rollins
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
~ Hesiod
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
~ Hesiod
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
~ Horace
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
~ Ian Hart
I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.
~ Indira Gandhi
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
~ Isaac Bickerstaffe
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
~ Isaac Watts
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
~ J. G. Holland
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
~ Jack Abramoff
Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.
~ Jack Welch
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
~ James D'arcy
At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.
~ James Redford
You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.
~ James Surowiecki
I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.
~ Jamie Woon
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.
~ Jeff Garcia
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
~ Jeff Koons
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
~ Jeff Tweedy