Quotes About Productivity

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

The Allies' ability to launch two major seaborne offensives on opposite sides of the globe less than two weeks apart was testimony to the remarkable productivity of American industry,

The son of Mark Twain recounted that his father paced while he worked: "Some of the time when dictating, Father walked the floor . . . then it always seemed as if a new spirit had flown into the room."24 Bill Gates is a pacer, too. "It helps him organize his mind and see what others can't see," says his wife, Melinda.

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.

the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.

Great managers play favorites and spend most of their time with their most productive people. Not because they discriminate, but because they deserve the attention and have so much to teach you.

productive two-way relationship with their manager and their team. 3) Have the opportunity to use their natural abilities and are growing to new levels of success.

corn yielded more calories per acre than did rice, wheat, or barley,

Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.

It was amazing how Mrs. Warmer always seemed to know when a car stopped at the gate. It was not that she wasted time gazing out of the windows, for she got through more work than two ordinary women.

It was a busy day, washing and ironing and packing, but although I had so much to do I was happy (I felt like a woman who has just been released from prison).

I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources versus a centralized planning system, frequently referred to as communism or socialism, the network approach does much better when it's applied accurately.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

Whatever you can say in a meeting, you can put in an email. If I have questions, I'll tell you via email.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.

If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.