Quotes About Productivity

It takes, on average, three years from the time a person decides to leave the company until the day he or she walks out the door. Those are not good or productive years.

the problem was not people but the law, which was discouraging and preventing people from being more productive.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Never procrastinate. Never say you'll do it tomorrow or the next day. Slow workers never fill their barns. Neither do procrastinators. Diligence does the job.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

In a way, the goal of all writing projects should be to "get the hell out." You don't simply want to finish; you want to finish as quickly and easily as possible (without undue stress or pressure, of course) so that you can move on to the next project—or, the rest of your life.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

The kid probably didn't realize that a white-collar worker could spend a whole day in his office doing nothing, literally sweet fuck-all, and still get paid for it.

Actually, she was still in her pyjamas and all she'd achieved that morning was getting out of bed. She hadn't even managed to feed herself breakfast yet.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Labor is the true standard of value.

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good.

even when women can imagine changes that might increase their productivity at work, their happiness at home, or their overall contentment with their lives, their suppressed sense of entitlement creates real barriers to their asking. Because they're not dissatisfied with what they have and not sure they deserve more, women often settle for less.

One way to get yourself started in spite of Resistance is to set a timer for ten minutes, and promise yourself that if you feel like stopping when the timer goes off, you can.