Quotes About Productivity

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Busy is only good, if there is progress involved.

The fairest sharing to humanity is time, 24hours for every living thing. What you do with it is up to you.

Efforts to keep meetings productive usually required limiting attendance to a compact group. Anything above a handful of people inspired Trump to play to the room; a smaller number left a chance that work would get done.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference. Play

There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Henri Nouwen once told the story of a research professor who was always complaining about interruptions in his work, until one day he came to the realization that interruptions were his work.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

L'homme est fait pour un instant de labeur et pour une éternelle paresse.

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, however, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Pat yourself on the back for what you do get done. Use to-do lists, alarm clocks, and other ways of booby-trapping your environment. Form collaborations that will prevent you from never accomplishing anything. Above all, enjoy life.

Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done.

I'm not a responsible human being before noon. I don't daylight; I really don't.

Taking a little undertime today?

It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves." •

up by three metal desks, each with a computer

I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.