Productivity Quotes

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

Vishal Ostwal

It’s your willingness and commitment which can set everything right for you more than anything else.

Vishal Ostwal

Time investment is the NEW Time Management.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

Michael Bassey Johnson

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

Richard Rohr

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Calvin Coolidge

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Jeff Davidson

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

Noel DeJesus

Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.

Noel DeJesus

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Paul J. Meyer

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

Peter F Drucker

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

Oliver Burkeman

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

David Graeber

The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department.

Henrietta Newton Martin

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.

Noel DeJesus

The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real.

Clay Shirky

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

David Allen

To ‘kill time’ is a case of mistaken identity -- you have mistaken the victim for the perp.

Oran Kangas

Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.

Wayne Gladstone

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours -- that's another matter.

H.G.Wells

Reality always wins.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.

Gretchen Rubin

Your time is your life.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off--it's more like a recipe.

Atul Gawande

Either you run the day or the day runs you

Alice Glynn

With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.

Matt Perman

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

Dave Ramsey

Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

John Stoker

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.

Seneca

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.

Neil A. Fiore

Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance

Salley Farquharson

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

Rex Miller Sr.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Knut Hamsun

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

Paul Axtell

The only way to do great work is to just do it!

Wali Zahid

The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for 'time discipline,' as against 'time obedience.' One can ... use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from without. It is the mechanical clock that made possible, for better or worse, a civilization attentive to the passage of time, hence to productivity and performance.

David S. Landes

Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers!(TM)

Nanci McGraw

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

Dean Wesley Smith

Traction equals satisfaction

Dave Ramsey

Life is like paper; you can throw it away or, you can make something out of it.

TheKatAttack

Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

David Allen

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

Gary Keller

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

William Hazlitt

Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.

David Allen

The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

Pawan Mishra

Spring is a season of fruitfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time

Vivek Naik

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

Alexandre Dumas

If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Chip Heath

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

David Allen

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

David Allen

Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!

Kevin J. Donaldson

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