Quotes About Productivity

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

Work first, and then rest.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.