Quotes About Productivity

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

Being seen by God empowers us to suffer well in our painful situations without being overwhelmed. Our lives can be productive. The God who saw the pain and misery of the Israelites and Hagar is able to see the pain and challenges we go through today.

Your physical energy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a peak. There will be times of low as well as high energy. There will be periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be times when everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are not getting anywhere, not achieving anything.

No one ever says, "This piece of creative work is crap, but they made it in a couple of weeks, so let's go and check it out.

Edison averaged one patent for every ten to twelve days of his adult life.

Somewhere between six one evening and eight-thirty next morning, beside his dressing and his dinner and his guests and his sleep, he had read a volume of three-hundred-and-odd pages, and

This book is about the role of interest in a modern economy. It was inspired by a Bastiat-like conviction that ultra-low interest rates were contributing to many of our current woes, whether the collapse of productivity growth, unaffordable housing, rising inequality, the loss of market competition or financial fragility. Ultra-low rates also seemed to play some role in the resurgence of populism as Sumner's Forgotten Man started to lose patience.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labour;

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

One thing at a time" will always perform a better day's work than doing two or three things at a time. By following this rule, one person will do more in a day than another does in a week.

Routinization of work, the researchers concluded, does not have to diminish creativity; if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

When we treat workaholics as heroes, we express a belief that labor rather than contemplation is the wellspring of great ideas and that the success of individuals and companies is a measure of their long hours.

Most of them have desktop computers rather than laptops, which makes it easier to separate their real-world and digital lives;

How we spend out non-working hours determines very largely how capably or incapably we spend our working hours.

But I've also come to see our respect for overwork as, perhaps a bit paradoxically, intellectually lazy. Measuring time is literally the easiest way to assess someone's dedication and productivity, but it's also very unreliable.

if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

It is wonderful how much work can be got through in a day, if we go by the rule—map out our time, divide it off, and take up one thing regularly after another. To drift through our work, or to rush through it in a helter-skelter fashion, ends in comparatively little being done. "One thing at a time" will always perform a better day's work than doing two or three things at a time. By following this rule, one person will do more in a day than another does in a week.

For organizations, burnout contributes to declines in productivity, a more stressed and unhappy workplace, and greater turnover. And it's often an organization's most talented and valuable workers who are most likely to burn out.

I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.