Quotes About Productivity

He began by pushing himself to stay up one hour later every evening and then coming in one hour later the next day. By early 1995, he had arrived at his ideal schedule: coming in to work at around 4:00 p.m. and leaving at 4:00 a.m. He would need all the concentration he could muster for Quake.

Research is showing that so-called multitasking is a myth. The human brain cannot perform two different tasks at the same time.

If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

On a good day I write, all day.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.