Quotes About Productivity

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #9: TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES, AND THE HOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

Of course, every few years you may be shocked when someone responds to your question "Do you really believe that?" with a very firm "yes." If so, be reachable yourself and listen to what the person has to say. A person who's brave enough to say "yes" to this question, and to stick by that answer, probably has some legitimate issues and will be happier and more productive if you iron those issues out.

The quickest way to make a lasting negative impression is to waste someone's time:

It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

Typinator, Typeit4me, or ActiveWords can type the current date on command. (Bit levers are covered in the "other essentials

The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.

Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels.

coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth.

Consistent with those patterns, there has been essentially no correlation between what states have spent on education and their measured academic outcomes. In other words, America's educational productivity appears to have collapsed, at least as measured by the NAEP and the SAT."15

example, if a fast-food restaurant that employs twenty individuals is required to pay some or all of them close to 30 percent more per hour, it must account for those dollars somewhere. The restaurant can try to sell more food, it can increase the cost of food, it can cut the hours of its employees, it can hire fewer workers, or it can lay off those currently employed.

Guard your writing time--zealously. It's precious, even if it's only one or two hours a day.

We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.

There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Don't confuse efforts with results....