Quotes About Productivity

that's the thing about urgent paperwork: the longer you leave it the less urgent it becomes.

En coupant du temps on en fabrique.

My best office is my bed.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Anyone reading this book will take in as much information today as Shakespeare took in over a lifetime. Researchers in the new field of interruption science have found that it takes an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from a phone call. Yet such interruptions come every eleven minutes—which means we're never caught up with our lives.

La définition la plus stricte et la plus restreinte de l'écrivain (etc.), que nous acceptons aujourd'hui comme allant de soi, est le produit d'une longue série d'exclusions ou d'excommunications visant à refuser l'existence en tant qu'écrivains dignes de ce nom à toutes sortes de producteurs qui pouvaient se vivre comme écrivains au nom d'une définition plus large et plus lâche de la profession.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

Productivity gains are vital to long-term growth because they typically translate into higher incomes, in turn boosting demand. That process takes time, of course - especially if, say, the initial recipients of increased income already have a high savings rate.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

When you spend a lot of time in your job, you realize you're just selling your time in exchange for money.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off setbacks.

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.