Quotes about Productivity

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

H]e was in another sort of contemplative mood perhaps more common in the young men of our day — that of questioning whether it were worth while to take part in the battle of the world: I mean, of course, the young men in whom the unproductive labor of questioning is sustained by three or five per cent on capital which somebody else has battled for.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

How you spend your time defines who you are.