Quotes About Productivity

Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

I'm the kind of person who needs to be challenged all the time. I need my brain to go, or else I just end up playing video games all day, you know? That's cool too, I guess, at times.

I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.

I would probably lose my mind if I wasn't busy. There's only so many video games I can play.

I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.

If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I'm done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.

On 'Lost,' I write a score and orchestrate it on days one and two; I record it on day three. In animation and film and videogames, you have a little more time to work things through.

There is so much to do inside the house, make creative videos, cook, exercise, act.

I don't really have hobbies. I paint. I write. I direct videos. I take photos. I'm a creative person. A normal day for me is doing all of those things. Sometimes I stay up until 5 A.M. writing a song because I make music. It's the same with writing.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I work best under pressure. At home I look at a script for about 10 minutes then I get distracted bymy records, or my tape, or my videotape machine, or Scotty.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

It always amuses me how much time people have to sit there and focus their energy on slagging you off. If they spent a fraction of that time on passion on working on their own business... they might actually get somewhere in life!

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These

I read an article the other day that said more and more bosses are becoming aware of their employees' need for Internet access. I don't believe that. Has anybody, anywhere, in any office actually seen somebody who is doing work on the Internet? Get real. Half the people in my office are on there looking for other jobs.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

The busy have no time for tears.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.