Productivity Quotes - Page 2

List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.

Kevin J. Donaldson

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

Stewart Lee Beck

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas A. Edison

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clearminds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.

Angela Lynne Craig

We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.

Ogwo David Emenike

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

Nabil Sabio Azadi

I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

I do believe that simplicity is a hallmark of maturity. But I do not believe that simplicity is necessarily a first step. Often, we must learn a depth of complexity before a beautiful simplicity blooms, whether in mind or matter.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.” ― John Cleese

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Kenneth Atchity

Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS – major on the major things in life, not the minors.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being dumped into the land in order to render it fertile faster. Yet in this, as with all things, you cannot develop an artificial substitute for Mother Nature which comes even close to providing what She provides.

Neale Donald Walsch

By seeing what triggers procrastination, and then making a plan to flip those triggers, doing your taxes becomes attractive. If I found myself putting off doing my taxes, I might sit down and make a plan to changes those triggers. For example, if the trigg

A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

John Ortberg Jr.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead s

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Douglas R. Hofstadter

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

Friedrich Engels

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

Fitness determines productivity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things."______________________________________________________________*ROWE: results-only work environment

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

John Stahl-Wert

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

Walter Brueggemann

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

Amos Gideon Buba

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.

Benjamin Suulola

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

Nathan W. Morris

Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time.

Where your attention goes, your time goes

Idowu Koyenikan

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that "people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth.

Winifred Gallagher

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

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