Quotes About Productivity

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

Dan, what people want is results. That's what matters.' " Bush's discomfort with the rhetorical requirements of his office was one of his cardinal weaknesses as a president.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

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Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email.

But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.

Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

Un buen esclavo les costaba mil dólares y no duraba mucho. Algunos cometían la ingratitud de enfermarse y morir. Había que sacar de esos inseguros el mayor rendimiento. Por eso los tenían en los campos desde el primer sol hasta el último; por eso requerían de las fincas una cosecha anual de algodón o tabaco o azúcar.

Human activity has two basic forms: doing ( agere ) and making ( facere ). Artifacts, technical and artistic, are the works of making. We ourselves are the works of doing.

Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.

I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.

The day counts on labor; the night counts on thinking. Clamor is useful for the first; silence for the second.

But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Give me six minutes to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

What matters is the value people create, not the space they inhabit.

Of all engineers, the most productive were those who gave often, and gave more than they received. These were the true Givers, and they had the highest productivity, and the highest status. They were revered by their peers. By giving often, engineers built up more trust, and attracted more valuable help across their work groups - Not just from the people they helped.

If you want to be original, "the most important possible thing you could do," says Ira Glass, the producer of This American Life and the podcast Serial, "is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.