Quotes About Productivity

Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I can't wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.