Productivity Quotes - Page 2

• If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

  Jack Ma

  Focus, Rabbits, Want

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Investing Money, Effort

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Goal, Progress, Defined

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• People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Hands, People

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• Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

  John Wayne

  Regret, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

  Erving Polster

  Keys, Fascination, Rewards

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• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

  Franz Kafka

  Business, Able, Kick Ass

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

  David Allen

  Taken, Done, Outcomes

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.58, Penguin

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Care

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.58, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

  Sean Stephenson

  Self Esteem, Positivity, Vaccines

  FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011

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• If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

  Tony Abbott

  Growth, Economic, Boost

  "Bolt Report" with Andrew Bolt, www.news.com.au. March 24, 2013.

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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• Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Time, Years

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Dinner, Way

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

  Robin Sharma

  Loss, Phones, Cells

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• Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lying, Mean, Giving

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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