Quotes About Productivity

If you require two hours of uninterrupted time, turn off your iPhone, Blackberry, or whatever your particular preference is. Use your tech aid wisely—obviously there are times when you need to be available.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

Prioritize and execute.

Your hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and fun times

Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. "My botherations often won't let me work,"11 he complained. He

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

If I can manage to write up to about a thousand words early in the morning, no matter what else I'm doing that day, I feel at least I've got some work done. Often I find my ideas are clearer then. It's as if I've got all the imagination going through all my dreams as if it's still there in my head. I think that's a good writing tip to pass on. Write when you wake up.

Fast nights make long days

Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'I can't wait to clean out some shit today.

I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.

If you now work into your 70s or 80s in a rapidly changing job market, then maintaining productivity is no longer about brushing up on knowledge – it is about setting time aside to make fundamental investments in re-learning and re-skilling.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

I've been doing this for 50 years now and instead of retiring I'm busier than ever, though perhaps not as fast at getting things done. It's all terrifically interesting and very satisfying.

Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks.

The trouble with multitasking. In study after study, researchers have shown that performing multiple tasks at once makes the brain less efficient. Basically, the brain doesn't become proficient at doing multiple tasks, it simply becomes faster at skipping back and forth between them and blocking other information out.

when the mind shifts back and forth it actually slows down. This shifting back and forth is known as "switchtasking" and there's a high cost to doing this habitually.

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time—and it's killing them.

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.