Quotes About Productivity

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.