Quotes About Productivity

The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.

I have a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.

For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.

My BlackBerry is essential to my survival.

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to being hot offices where you decide which day you're going to come in and then you reserve a desk.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That's a level I can sustain.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

Our national challenge is to continue to drive sustained economic growth.