Quotes About Productivity

You can sit down and spend hours crafting some joke that you think is perfect, but a lot of the time, that's just a waste of time," Ruby explains.

Your first step in decluttering them is to ask yourself "How do I want these horizontal surfaces to make my life easier?" (Rather than "What do I want to put here?")

Scientists, according to [Francis] Bacon, should not be like ants, busy doing mindless practical tasks, nor like spiders, weaving tenuous philosophical webs, but like bees, mining nature for her goodness and using it to make useful things.

Tu, in quanto prodotto della tua società socialista, sei abituato a enormi sprechi. Io, tuttavia, sono ancora per la libera impresa. 'Risparmiare è guadagnare...

I think we need to tell each other everything we've found out. And it'll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we're doing it, so

the joy of awakening each morning knowing there were all those empty hours ahead to be filled only with work.

I can type very fast, sometimes even faster than I can think of what to type.

What have you done today with your inheritance of time?

Warlord firms succeed when management keeps the big hitters happy and productive. The past and the future are not often items high on the agenda. Consequently, over time, the performance of extreme warlord firms often swings through peaks and valleys. Much management energy is expended in modulating the politically charged environment.

capital has become very sophisticated about absorbing people's free time because it doesn't want you to have free time because you might THINK...

Without slack there is no tactical agility in the business.

lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.

Software engineers are apparently not supposed to have a social or family life.

An Economic Model for Lean W

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.

This is my daily work . . . When I accomplish something, I write a * line that day. Whenever a bug / missing feature is mentioned during the day and I don't fix it, I make a note of it. Some things get noted many times before they get fixed. Occasionally I go back through the old notes and mark with a + the things I have since fixed.

but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.

If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.

in this great land, found his crouched, finger-pointing yentism merely the performance of a deeper truth and moral imperative, reducible to "stop working, tax the productive until they stop working, and let the country go to hell.

clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.

It really is torture to sit around the house and write all day. I'm thinking it might motivate me to finish the book faster, the thought that after it's finished I can return to housecleaning. The

If something is written in your native language and it's taking you half a year to get through it, unless you're being paid by the hour to read it, I'd say there's a problem.

La vida es eso. Sembrar relaciones de mutua utilidad. Una buena agenda es el mejor amigo del hombre.

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time