Quotes About Productivity

But 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.

I had my PDA set to wake me up at 0600, which it did by gently piping music through its little speakers and gradually increasing the volume until I woke.

Mostly I'm too damn busy to know how I feel.

Work is the only good thing.

Isn't it funny, my two pet horrors, incapacity and ledgers and they both hit at once. I write columns of figures in big ledgers and after about three hours of it I am so stupefied that I can't get down to my own work. I can see very readily how office workers get the way they are. There is something soddenly hypnotic about the columns of figures.

Kar??mda nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir arazi duruyor, yan?mda da nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir adam. Ä°sraf gibi geliyor bana. Ä°srafa gücüm yetmediÄŸi için de kötü bir his verir. Hayat?n? nadasa b?rakmak iyi bir his mi?

God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground—everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

Getting your people to think "Team First" is vital. It starts when you teach each member of the group how she or he contributes to the organization, when you make each one feel connected to the team's efforts, productivity, and ultimate success.

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

I feel most alive when I'm surrounded by family and friends, and when I am working.

Postponement: The father of failure.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck