Quotes About Productivity

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

There is nothing shameful about being efficient.

I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

People take shortcuts to meet ends in MNCs.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I am so happy that I decided to cut my hair. It literally takes me three minutes to do my hair. I get out of the shower, put some conditioner in it, and it's just, 'Let's go,' and I love that! I think it's very, very important to find products that allow us to be able to have more time to do things like that.

I sleep five hours, I get up at 4 A.M., I take three or four cold showers a day. I do things differently.

Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I don't like doing things badly, that just feels like a waste of a day.

When I need to go to my bank, I'll do television.

I'm no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Work begets work.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.