Productivity Quotes - Page 18

• There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Tunnels

  27 Copy quote

• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Waste

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

  Michael Porter

  Creating, Innovation, Growth

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

  109 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Together, Want, Students

  45 Copy quote

• See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Jobs, Misery

  16 Copy quote

• No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Past, Matter

  16 Copy quote

• A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be lower, ... It also puts pressure on American industry to increase productivity and competitiveness. These benefits can feed on themselves as foreign capital flows in more readily because of greater confidence in our currency. A weak dollar would have the contrary effects.

  Robert Rubin

  Strong, Mean, Dollars

  11 Copy quote

• Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, Light, Mind

  "Integrative Mental Health: A New Model For Depression Relief" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pursue meaningful adventures.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Meaningful, Adventure, Pursue

  14 Copy quote

• Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strength, Work, Enough

  Rudyard Kipling (2007). “A Book of Words”, p.56, Wildside Press LLC

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

  Paul Hawken

  Trying, Poverty, Humans

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Awe

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Order, Issues, Finals

  "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter: "The Fulfillment of Man", 1951.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

  James Sinegal

  Wages, Opposition

  8 Copy quote
• 

  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

  859 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Years, Long, Waiting

  16 Copy quote

• Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Mind, Details

  29 Copy quote

• The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

  Jane Pauley

  Meaningful, Creativity, Opportunity

  9 Copy quote

• On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Three, Next

  5 Copy quote

• I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

  5 Copy quote

• Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Skills, Stronger

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.109, Random House

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Political, President, Unemployment

  8 Copy quote

• It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Compassion, People, Creative

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source