Quotes About Productivity

Put your "inner writer" back on its leash and give it a chew toy.

Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

Strong emotions serve only to slow effective action.

Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Manage your energy today or have a cost to do nothing

She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

80/20 says 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your efforts, and 20 percent of your results come from the other 80 percent.

80/20 applies to almost everything in business that you can count. â–· Almost every frustration you have in sales has something to do with ignoring 80/20.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

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Retraumatized by her own inner voice, she then launches into her most habitual 4F behavior. She either lashes out domineeringly at the nearest person [Fight] – or she launches busily into anxious productivity [Flight] – or she flips on the TV and foggily tunes out or dozes off again [Freeze] – or she self-abandoningly redirects her attention to figuring out how to fix a friend's problem [Fawn].

For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

The things that matter to us are measured by depth. Would you assess your humanity by its pace? When I view myself as a time-sensitive product, valued for what I produce, then I have made depth, extended thought, and the inward journey marginal indulgences.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive.

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.