Quotes About Productivity

It's amazing how much easier it is to think productively when your belly is full.

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless.

Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.

The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

Baumeister and John Tierney called Willpower. One piece of advice they offer is that one should be careful not to use up one's willpower on unnecessary tasks. You wouldn't tire out a muscle before a weight-lifting competition, would you?

Whether or not migrants realize it, the impetus for their emigration is to escape from those aspects of their countries of origin that have condemned people to low productivity.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

Being too hard on ourselves, and not accepting the fact that we procrastinate, just leads to more procrastination and makes it harder to change. Students

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Readily identifies more efficient ways of doing business

Here are some indicators of successful management: Things get done well. Problems are not big surprises. Issues get resolved. Progress continues even when managers aren't there. People are engaged with their work and each other. Conflict is productive rather than territorial. New ideas emerge spontaneously from a variety of people.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power

Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.

You don't need special traits, special genes, or special motivation to write a lot. You don't need to want to write--people rarely feel like doing unpleasant tasks that lack deadlines--so don't wait until you feel like it. Productive writing comes from harnessing the power of habit, and habits come from repetition p.129

Writing time is for writing, not for checking e-mail, reading the news, or browsing the latest issues of journals. Sometimes I think it would be nice to download articles while writing, but I can do that at the office. The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control.

Do you need to "find time to teach"? Of course not---you have a teaching schedule, and you never miss it. [...] Finding time is a destructive way of thinking about writing. Never say this again. Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write.

Remember, you're allocating time to write, not finding time to write.

Equipment will never help you write a lot; only making a schedule and sticking to it will make you a productive writer.

Binge writers spend more time feeling guilty and anxious about not writing than schedule followers spend writing.