Quotes about Productivity

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The best and most abiding success is that which is made before eight o'clock in the morning.

FAITH is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions.

Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.

It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

In our culture, time can seem like an enemy....But the monastic perspective welcomes time as a gift from God and seeks to put it to good use rather than allowing us to be used up by it.....Liturgical time is essentially poetic time, oriented toward process rather than productivity, willing to wait attentively in stillness, rather than always pushing to get the job done