Quotes About Productivity

Tice and Baumeister (1997) found that procrastinators not only received lower grades but also got sick more and had more visits to health clinics than nonprocrastinators.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Write as much as you can. As fast as you can. Finish your shit. Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck.

An IDOL is someone who is never IDLE. An idle mind is the devil's workshop,but an idol's mind is a creative office

Get busy !!...that is an antidote to worries.And if you still feel the worries,get bussier !!

A veces pienso que somos masas uniformes que vamos donde nos lleve otro acumulamiento de masa uniforme, que hacemos lo que hay que hacer porque algo hay que hacer y que amamos molestar al otro por nuestras propias imposibilidades. Impedimentos para hacer algo productivo, algo constructivo...

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Is focused on a few important goals (at most), not off chasing every distraction;

the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world.

But why are those moments so essential? It's because laughter boosts productivity. It makes a task more manageable. It releases endorphins, forges emotional connections, and can encourage more honest communication. When your staff has fun at work, they work together more collaboratively. Every single day at work becomes a team-building activity.

In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it.

The secret of getting things done quickly is not to hurry.

There are at least 365 days in a year. You can do 300 days working with pay, 60 days working and praying without pay, and 5 days of rest

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Two o'clock already! High time for a woman of letters who has turned out badly to go to sleep.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.