Quotes About Productivity

I can't live without my Hermes day planner.

My day planner is a constant companion as my organizer. And shows me that I am, in fact, getting things done.

For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.

I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.

On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts.

I am one of the most organized people I have ever met, and even with all my planning, I still feel like I'm constantly forgetting things.

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

I've always got loads on my plate, so I should concentrate on fewer things. I take multitasking to a ridiculous degree.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.

Nobody is going to tell me that I can't do three games in a week. No one is going to tell me that I can't do it well. I'm going to work really hard at it. I get bored if I don't have 10,000 things on my plate.

I love to have my plate full.

Well here's how I look at it, I've always been someone that's liked to have things on my plate, it just keeps me going.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

There is no point in being lazy.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.