Quotes About Productivity

Most obviously, the federal minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, has fallen by a third over the past half century, even as worker productivity has risen 150 percent. That divergence was politics, pure and simple.

Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run, it's almost everything

But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people's work, would I ever work sixty hours?

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.

Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task