Quotes About Productivity

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

It's nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

The most important thing is work.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.