Explore more quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

Nature, Invention, Inventions, Nothing

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

Being,

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Work, Quality, God, Mankind

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

Business, Death, Love, Heart

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

Time, First, Present, Rivers

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

People, Accomplishment, Attention

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

Beginning, End

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

Change, Mind

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Earth, Eyes, Will

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Experience, Power

Exlpore more Productivity quotes

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Productivity, Time, Gain, Leisure

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."

Paul Gauguin, French Artist

Productivity, Key, Result

"Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop."

David F. Houston, American Politician

Productivity, Weight

"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Productivity, Day, Film, Months

"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Productivity, Day

"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

Productivity, Day, Man, Will

"We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency."

Eamon de Valera, Irish Statesman

Productivity, Idleness, Inefficiency, Waste

"The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do."

Simon Sinek, British Author

Productivity, Time Management, Choices

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

Tim Ferriss, American Author

Productivity, Busyness, Efficiency

"In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us."

Brene Brown, American Researcher

Productivity, Time Management, Busyness, Routine