Quotes About Productivity

A study at Cornell University found that low-level noise both lowered job motivation and increased stress levels. It appears as well that an open-office type of environment can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as a stiff back or tense neck and even heart disease due to increased levels of epinephrine, a stress hormone.

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Complexity confounds and debilitates us, causing us to spend untold numbers of hours and countless sums of money to diminish or undo what perhaps didn't need to be done at all.

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

attitude—our positive outlook on life—the key factor for us living long and productive lives.

meeting" is often the euphemism we use for unproductive collaboration.

This is a workshop, not in a meeting. Meeting is the word that has become a euphemism for unproductive collaboration.

Lo principal que hacía era escucharlos, pero también los animaba a «ver» que todavía les era posible llevar vidas plenas, productivas y felices. La vida es un reto, no una tragedia.

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a machine; it runs whether or not there is any benefit to be derived from the work it's doing.

The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it's focused on increasing throughput.

Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

Four: Too many wasteful 'synchronization' meetings interrupted the actual work.

More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

Alex, the goal is not to reduce operational expense by itself. The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expense and reduce inventory while simultaneously increasing throughput," says Jonah.

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

Jonah said there was only one goal. Well, I don't see how that can be. We do a lot of things in the course of daily operations, and they're all important. Most of them anyway . . . or we wouldn't do them. What the hell, they all could be goals.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.

Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.