Quotes About Productivity

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

Notice how I'm playing the part of an enemy to code. I'm actively thinking about how I can break it. I find that state of mind to be both productive and fun. It indulges the mean-spirited part of my psyche. When you are doing tests, don't forget to check that expected errors occur properly.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.

time spent sharpening a pencil is never wasted",

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day

Even a world leader only has 24 hours in a day!

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first" Robert J. McKain, inspirational writer

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

A man is measured by the quantity of what he produces, never the quality of his dreams.

A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.

If we can't find valuable work, it's not because we're in a recession; we're in a recession because we can't find valuable work. We've been confusing cause and effect.

Honest, diligent, attentive, productive, innovative, creative, faithful, fruitful, conscientious, hard work bears witness to God's nature and character.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Bobby Lambrecht. It's after five

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

What are you doing?" "Can't you see? I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted! How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours, and I'm beat! This is hard work." "Well, why don't you take a break and sharpen that saw? I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw. I'm too busy sawing!"[*]

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a rain it certainly is not idle.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.