Productivity Quotes

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.

~ Kourosh Dini

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

~ Gary Keller

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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.

~ Farshad Asl

…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

~ Chris Bailey

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

~ Gerry Geek

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

~ Gerry Geek

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

~ Chris Bailey

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

~ Chris Bailey

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

~ Gary Keller

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

~ William Hazlitt

The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

~ Pawan Mishra

Spring is a season of fruitfulness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time

~ Vivek Naik

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

~ Chip Heath

Give yourself a deadline. Amazingly, many people work better under pressure. They are quickly moved to action when they know that they have a clock to beat!

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

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

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

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

~ Dave Ramsey

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait, but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

~ John Stoker

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.

~ Seneca

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.

~ Neil A. Fiore

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

~ Rex Miller Sr.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

~ Knut Hamsun

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

~ Paul Axtell

The mechanical clock was self-contained, and once horologists learned to drive it by means of a coiled spring rather than a falling weight, it could be miniaturized so as to be portable, whether in the household or on the person. It was this possibility of widespread private use that laid the basis for 'time discipline,' as against 'time obedience.' One can ... use public clocks to simon people for one purpose or another; but that is not punctuality. Punctuality comes from within, not from without. It is the mechanical clock that made possible, for better or worse, a civilization attentive to the passage of time, hence to productivity and performance.

~ David S. Landes

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

~ Dean Wesley Smith

Traction equals satisfaction

~ Dave Ramsey

Life is like paper; you can throw it away or, you can make something out of it.

~ Thekatattack

Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi