Quotes About Productivity

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Inertia is the death of creativity

Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.

cuando más, mejor y más fácil­mente se produce es cuando cada persona realiza un solo trabajo de acuerdo con sus aptitudes, en el momento oportuno y sin ocuparse de nada más que de él.

Everyone should think it a disgrace and unworthy of a gentleman, if any citizen devotes the whole of any night to sleep.

God's purpose in giving you Sabbath spaces amid your full, productive life is to help you be uninhibited in your devotion, service, and worship of Yahweh. Margin keeps you from marginalizing God.

We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.

He said, "Busy is happy," and I suspected that his mother had counseled him about the satisfaction and the peace that come from giving to the world whatever you are capable of contributing.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.

A lazy brain does no one any good.