Productivity Quotes - Page 3

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• 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 spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Views, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.134, Harmony

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• Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

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• Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.

  William McDonough

  Nature, Taken, Animal

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

  Peter Block

  Kick Ass

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• I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Joy, Culture

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• Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

  David Allen

  Procrastination, Ideas, Mind

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• Never mistake motion for action.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Positive, Witty, Mistake

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Men, May

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

  William E. Simon

  Jobs, Innovation, Growth

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• You always succeed in producing a result.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Succeed, Action

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• On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Effort, Done

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• He that rises late must trot all day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Laziness, Kick Ass

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• 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

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.127, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth

  Ellen Stern

  Fall, Self Worth, Judging

  Ellen Sue Stern (1991). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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• 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

  Motivation, Organization, Leader

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• I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Wall, Progress, Bed

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• 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

  Opportunity, Forever, Inspire

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Law, Research, Favourite

  Godel, Escher, Bach ch. 5 (1979)

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• Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

  Donald Trump

  Moving On, Success, Giving Up

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