Quotes About Productivity

A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required.

L'un des maux de cette époque est que l'on ne peut plus demander aux gens ce qu'ils font. Cette question jadis innocente entraîne aujourd'hui un malaise trop profond. Le chômage y est pour beaucoup. Je trouve cela dommage. Si quelqu'un me disait très simplement qu'il ne faisait rien dans la vie, j'aurais pour lui de l'admiration. Il est magnifique de ne rien faire. Si peu de gens en sont capables.

I have one weakness. I don't like vacations. I like to work.

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.

I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

The productivity and expressiveness of Flash remain advantages for the Web community even as HTML advances.

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'