Quotes About Productivity

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Engineers are often defined by their output.

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

Output is more important than ideas.

'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.

I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, 'I've got bus driver's block.' Get over it.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the daily decisions you have to make, it's time to automate something.

Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.

each switch imposes a direct penalty of a bit more than twenty minutes of lost concentration.

when they investigated the productivity of 24 projects for which no estimates were prepared at all. These projects far outperformed all the others

The top quartile, those who did the exercise most rapidly and effectively, work in space that is substantially different from that of the bottom quartile. The top performers' space is quieter, more private, better protected from interruption, and there is more of it. What

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality.

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.

The bald fact is that many companies provide developers with a workplace that is so crowded, noisy, and interruptive as to fill their days with frustration. That alone could explain reduced efficiency as well as a tendency for good people to migrate elsewhere.

People under time pressure don't work better - they just work faster.

There are a million ways to loose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.