Quotes About Productivity

You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days like that as an entrepreneur. If you don't do the work you need to, nothing happens that needs to. It's that simple.

I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

Everybody else has the same 24 hours, but I'm going to make the most of my 24 hours.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

Putting the mind to a task diluted the power of worry.

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don't like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

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

For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

The computer is credited with the capacity to create unsuspected amounts of busywork. We are straight on our way towards an energy-obsessed low energy society in a world that worships work but has nothing for people to do.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

Suppose that we allot ourselves a generous eight hours a day for sleep (and few need more than that), three hours for meals and conversation, ten hours for work and travel. Still we have thirty-five hours each week to fill. What happens to them? How are they invested?

Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.

Our problem is not too little time but making better use of the time we have.

It is often helpful to keep records of how each hour in a given week is spent, and then look at the record in the light of scriptural priorities. The results may be shocking. Often the record shows that we have much more time available for Christian service than we imagine.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends.