Quotes About Productivity

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Someday is not a day of the week.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

This is a pie chart about procrastination.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.

Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Well done is better than well said.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.