Quotes About Productivity

It's a good thing I work well under pressure.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

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Never stop. Truly, never stop. Keep cleaning, cooking, chopping your own wood. Go on walks with the dog. Dig in your garden. We are meant to be busy. Idle hands do the Devil's work.

Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?

A hypereffective schedule designed to maximize productivity is, in fact, more likely to distract you from what's important than help you discover it.

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it's useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

noise is always a byproduct of inefficiency. A correctly designed engine is as silent as the grave.

It was widely known though rarely mentioned that an eager young bride could accomplish in seven months or less what takes nine for cow or countess.

For myself, I long since came to the firm conclusion that a man can do more productive work, and make more money if that is his object, by sitting down with his hands in his pockets than by any form of physical activity. Do you happen to know the average yearly income of a meteor miner? Well, no, but— Less than six hundred a year. But some of them get rich!

Most psychotherapies are designed to patch up wounded people and then throw them back into the battle of oppositions. They guide people in how to become better adapted socially: more adept at making money, more highly disciplined, more dutiful, more economically productive. Even when such therapy is successful and gets an individual back out into the rat race again, you can watch them wither over time under the weight of it all. In

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

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Writing regardless of mood, in contrast, keeps momentum going. Writing regularly, even in moderate amounts, minimizes warm-up effects. Writing in a regimen produces both ease of writing and surprising output of writing.

When a man's busy, why, leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

these costs total about $500 billion per year, or the equivalent of nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). More specifically, we estimate that childhood poverty each year: (1) reduces productivity and economic output by an amount equal to 1.3 percent of GDP, (2) raises the costs of crime by 1.3 percent of GDP, and (3) raises health expenditures and reduces the value of health by 1.2 percent of GDP.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. DUTCH PROVERB