Quotes about Productivity

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book.

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.