Productivity Quotes

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

~ Noel Dejesus

Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.

~ Noel Dejesus

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

~ Peter F. Drucker

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

~ Oliver Burkeman

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

~ David Graeber

The reason why employee relations have lost its sheen in aiding productivity, is to be searched for , within the doors of your corporate structure , i.e. your human resource department.

~ Henrietta Newton Martin

Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.

~ Noel Dejesus

Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.

~ Wayne Gladstone

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours -- that's another matter.

~ H.g. Wells

Reality always wins.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was productive. Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Your time is your life.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

~ Richard Koch

Time investment is the NEW Time Management.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

~ Richard Rohr

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

~ Calvin Coolidge

It’s your willingness and commitment which can set everything right for you more than anything else.

~ Vishal Ostwal

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

~ Vishal Ostwal

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

~ James Altucher

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

~ Major Owens

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

~ Paul Hawken