Quotes About Productivity

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

Dicen que con llorar nada se arregla pero eso no es verdad. Llorar es hacer algo aunque ese algo no sirva más que para quitarnos la sensacion insoportable de no hacer nada.

No, Arabs are not lazy, but we take the time to live life to the full; it is something Europeans don't understand. To them, time is money. To us, time has no price.

Why are churches so unproductive? They try to be all things to all people. They can't say no. They do too much and end up doing a lot of things poorly. They keep adding ministry programs but never prune the ineffective ones. But parachurch organizations do one thing—such as hunger relief, housing for the poor, vaccinations, or Bible translation—and do it very well. Productivity fires the imaginations of men.

He always woke early, had coffee, checked his e-mail and then decided whether to climb back into bed.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Down with committees Most campaigns are too complicated. They reflect a long list of objectives, and try to reconcile the divergent views of too many executives. By attempting to cover too many things, they achieve nothing. Many commercials and many advertisements look like the minutes of a committee. In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees' Agencies

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Never allow two people to do a job which one could do. George Washington observed, 'Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Every day spent producing reports is a day less spent on analysis and projects." There

study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.

One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

There are countless observations in all aspects of our lives. For example, in sales, 20% of salespeople seem to make more than 80% of all sales commission.

We have to ask ourselves one single question, according to Koch: "What will give us better result for less energy?" or, in a more common phrase: "How do we get the most bang for our buck?" If

If the 80/20 principle says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts,

It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.

Pragmatic Programmers get the job done, and do it well.

Every minute you actually spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution.

I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice?

They are much more interested in producing information than consuming it.

there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I'd accomplished something.