Quotes About Productivity

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Como decía mi padre: "lo importante no es el tiempo que uno pasa en algo, sino lo que pasa durante ese tiempo". Cuando bajan los niveles de compromiso no solo se afecta la productividad sino que el servicio al cliente también decae. Lo único que aumenta es el ausentismo y, por razones similares, la rotación de personal.

porque antes no podían tener contacto con la gente de la gerencia, pues "siempre estaban en reunión".

Antonio follow a multi-active time system, that is, they do many things at once, often in an unplanned order.

Linear-active people, like Swedes, Swiss, Dutch and Germans, do one thing at a time, concentrate hard on that thing and do it within a scheduled time period. These people think that in this way they are more efficient and get more done. Multi-active people think they get more done their way. Let us look again at Sven and Antonio.

the Creative Economy is driven by the logic that seeks to fully harness—and no longer waste—human resources and talent.

In conventional employment people are specifically hired to work for purposes which are not their own. They

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

I meant to do my work today but . . .

To Save Time is to Lengthen Life," proclaimed the Remington Typewriter Company.

Does it bother you, to be such a destroyer of productivity?" Neelay gazes out on a patch of mountain shaved bare half a century ago. "I don't think . . . It might not be so bad, to destroy a little productivity.

start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.

Sully always maintained that if you had ten guys working on a rock pile, Rub would be the last you'd fire for laziness. Only when you'd fired all the others would you realize that Rub had not yet addressed his first rock.

Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.

If you need to feel wide awake directly after having a short nap, drink a cup of coffee or other caffeinated drink just before dozing off. The caffeine will start to work its magic about twenty-five minutes later – just as you are waking up.

Energy, not time, is the main currency in high performance.

Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).

I hated visiting Hephaestus's office. His desk toys were so mesmerizing I found myself staring at them for hours, sometimes decades. I missed the entire 1480s that way

She needed more time, there simply wasn't enough of it. This was the only way she could think of making it (setting her alarm five minutes earlier every day). Not making it exactly, if you could make it from scratch - brand new time- that would be fantastic.

These were ideal conditions for the creation of his magnum opus, and Ramsay was hammering on the Remington's keys and shuttling its carriage with abandon, fuelled by nothing more than Lipton's tea and a tin of cocaine throat pastilles that he'd cadged off one of the dancers at the Sphinx.

Rather than relying on a notebook, you should work with two spreadsheets on your computer; you use one to list all the companies you're aware of in the field or fields you're interested in and the other to list every single contact you have.

What does he want you to do? What does she? And how can this be accomplished with the least effort possible so that time will be left for the real, important things? Here we are, figuring out how to survive in a hive of hierarchies, and they want us to memorize dates and decline agricola.

What I, as a Christian theologian, attempt to do here is provide a Protestant anti-work ethic, by coming up with what I believe are good religious reasons for (1) breaking the link between a right to well-being and work, (2) breaking one's identification with the productive self; and (3) breaking the time continuity, time collapse, that constrains imaginative possibility under the current configuration of capitalism.

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-sharpened and unusually creative thinking and increased productivity?