Quotes About Productivity

The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

Happiness is not good for the economy.

Sometimes the links between depression, anxiety, and productivity are undeniable.

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

A fragmented task takes more time than a blocked-time task.

Meditation is the practice of silent contemplation. The practice of mediation eradicates deeply rooted negative thoughts to allow positive ones to gradually make your mind their permanent abode. Meditation calms you down. This allows you moments of non-interrupted contemplation of what's going on inside your body as well as your surroundings. It illuminates the purpose you have in life and increases your memory, focus, and productivity.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.

When you are discouraged or caught up in procrastination, simply do the tiniest thing to move whatever you are working on forward.

Time is either used wisely or wasted foolishly.

Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.

Nobody will do their best work until they have lots of white space on their calendars.

The most important things are almost never urgent. That's why it's essential that we schedule them.

If there was anything Eileen had learned from her mother, it was the calming effect of work. "When in doubt, do," was Beattie's motto.

The concept of Nature does not evoke only the residue of what had not been constructed by me, but also a productivity which is not ours, although we can use it--that is, an originary productivity that continues beneath the artificial creations of man. It both partakes of the most ancient, and is something always new.

The psychoanalysis of objective knowledge is interminable, or rather...like every psychoanalysis, it is destined not to suppress the past, the phantasms, but to transform them from powers of death into poetic productivity, and...the very idea of objective knowledge and the idea of algorithm as a spiritual automaton and finally the idea of an object that informs itself and knows itself are, as much as any other ideas, and more than any other, supported by our reveries.

Authors with a mortgage never get writer's block. –

Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury," even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation  to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.

Remember the fairy story "The Elves and the Shoemaker"? The shoemaker found that if he cut out the leather, and laid out the patterns before retiring, little elves came and actually put the shoes together for him while he was sleeping.

When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.