Quotes About Productivity

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

I will literally have a whole pot of coffee to myself.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

It's hard for me when I'm not getting on base too much. I feel like I'm not contributing to the ball club. When I'm on base, I'm making stuff happen; that's more energy for the ball club.

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I have to get my eight hours of sleep. Otherwise I'd be cranky all day.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.