Quotes About Productivity

He aims at too great perfection. He wants to know everything and do everything, and life is too short for that. He finishes nothing, because he is ever starting to do something else.

In our busy, busy culture in which even teens have incredibly complicated schedules, "wasting" time seems to mean, "having a block of time that's not booked." That's not it at all, because, believe it or not, busy, busy time can be wasted time, too. And, to make it even more complicated, an hour spent sitting outside doing "nothing" can actually be the opposite of wasted time. That hour just might be the best and most moral use of time you've had today.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don't write at all.

In human resource management, an employee who brings in one point three times what he costs is worth his money. In other words an actual yield of thirty percent!

Awaken each day with a plan, retire each day with a plan for the next, and you will know each day will be fruitful." Andreas Simic

Life is a never ending to do list waiting for you to tackle.Andreas Simic

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Tools amplify your talent. The better your tools, and the better you know how to use them, the more productive you can be.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

I literally work every day and weekends.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

I don't read work emails after 7 P.M. or on weekends.

I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.

My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.