Productivity Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Fall seven times, Stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Soetsu Yanagi, in the ‘Unknown Craftsman’, writes, ‘Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs’. For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.”
– Jeff Davidson

“In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.”
– Jeffrey Kluger

“You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.”
– Joe E. Lewis

“For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.”
– John Hodgman

“Nowadays, business is all about productivity – and our folks produce.”
– John Hoeven

“Rise early. Work late. Strike oil.”
– John Paul Getty

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
– John Ruskin

“One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.”
– Joshua Foer

“Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer‘s strongest books.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.”
– Julia Gillard

“The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.”
– Ken Blanchard

“Document everything. People are voracious for the products of productive people.”
– Kevin Hale

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. ”
– Lao Tzu

“We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.”
– Laura Lacornette

“Just get started. There are some days when you don’t feel like heading out the door for a run, or figuring out your budget, or whatever it is you’re supposed to do that day for your goal. Well, instead of thinking about how hard it is, and how long it will take, tell yourself that you just have to start.”
– Leo Babauta

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
– Leo Babauta

“Many of us grew up in the age of multi-tasking, where you couldn’t call yourself productive if you weren’t a good multi-tasker. We learned to always have several balls in the air at once — while writing something on the computer, we had a phone call going, we were writing something on a notepad or paper form, we were reviewing documents, sometimes even holding a meeting at the same time. That’s the productive worker, the effective executive.”
– Leo Babauta

“Our brains can really only handle one thing at a time, and so we get so used to switching between one thing and another with our brains that we program them to have a short attention span. This is why it’s so hard to learn to focus on one thing at a time again.”
– Leo Babauta

“There’s a distinction between tasks and projects that should be made in any discussion of multi-tasking. Doing multiple tasks at the same time is less effective than single-tasking. But doing multiple projects at once is sometimes more effective than only one project at once.”
– Leo Babauta

“Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.”
– Leo Babauta

“The Power of Less is perfect for achieving goals: Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. At the same time, we’ll look at ways to narrow your focus on your projects, so that you can complete them more effectively and move forward on your goals. We’ll apply limitations to our projects to increase our effectiveness.”
– Leo Babauta

“We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.”
– Lewis Mumford

“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

“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
– Mark Twain

“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.”
– Mary Garden

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”
– Mary Hemingway

“When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.”
– Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.”
– Michael Lopp

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