Quotes about Productivity

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Remember it is harder still To have no work to do

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.