Quotes About Productivity

When people are successful, they usually become lazy.

Humans are lazy but not stupid.

Work needs to be exciting enough to take someone as lazy as me out of my home.

Everyone is born lazy.

For a lazy man I work awfully hard.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Like most classic bands, we only do an album every three or four years but that leaves a lot of down-time. And I don't like down time.

While I've got all my arms and legs and my eyes working at the same time, I've got to make as much stuff as I can.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

I'm very Type A; I like to get my list done.

We all have that long to-do list.

I always listen to music while I draw.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

I love to-do lists.

I love making lists.

I literally cannot work without music.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.

If you are working long hours make sure you get enough sleep.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.