Quotes about Productivity

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

For every ten men who are physically lazy there are ten thousand with stagnant minds. And stagnant minds are the breeding places of fear.

Note the Strong Man. He sees a thing to do and immediately DOES it. The thing may look trivial. It may even seem the work of some other fellow. But without hesitancy, as though dispute was greater than the task, the Strong Man gets the thing Done — so that he may have Time for other and Bigger things.

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.

Be pleasant in the morning until ten o'clock, the rest of the day will take care of itself.