Quotes About Productivity

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

Relaxation, peace and contentment are the by-products of the work you are doing, not its goal.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

A discretionary hour can be wisely invested or foolishly wasted. Each

Procrastination, the thief of time, is one of the devil's most potent weapons for defrauding us of eternal heritage. The

As your Daily Planner assumes its place among your "tools of daily life" (i.e., keys, cell phone, wallet, purse, etc.), you will use it to schedule upcoming commitments, such as social events, exams, meetings, appointments, etc. as they arise. In addition to organizing your day, the time spent thinking about and planning your activities is a "priming" activity that increases the likelihood of behavioral follow-through.

Dont do today what you could put off till tomorrow.

When he traveled, he was writing. When he was at the pub, he was writing. He would stop in the middle of a staircase or a crowded street to write. When he ran out of paper, he would write on his shirt cuffs. He was always writing. He was one of the most prolific writers who ever lived. A hundred books, thousands of essays, hundreds of poems.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

We should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave time for that which is better or best.

If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die?

the more productive a region becomes, the higher the rent will get and the wealthier the landowners. On the other hand, the more productive a region gets, the more capital it produces, so the capitalists will get richer too.

Ricardo's second principle is that labour is destined never to become more expensive. From the Labour Theory of Value it follows that all increases in productivity and profit principally happen because labour got cheaper.

Those who worked out at least once a week performed 9.8 percent faster, solved 5.8 percent more math problems, and had 2.7 percent better spatial memory than those who never exercise.

maximum results in minimum time.

Countless studies show that these nightmarish hellholes called "open offices" destroy productivity and make people miserable. Yet companies keep inflicting them on us, coyly pretending that the goal is to "foster collaboration," when really it is to squeeze pennies out of overhead by packing more people into fewer square feet of floor space.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination." —Dan Miller

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. … But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code.