Quotes About Productivity

If you can work anywhere, anytime, then pretty soon you're working everywhere all the time.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

What are you NOT working on that you should?

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

You will only be satisfied only when you are working

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

My two most unproductive days of the week have always been yesterday and tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, I try to focus majority of my attention on today.

Positive energy, positive work.

It is good to work for your living.

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Wealth can only be multiplied through work.

You have time to do what needs to be done.

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.