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Productivity Quotes
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
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"Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues."
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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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"Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you."
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"Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration."
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"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
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"The concept of work should be understood diligently."
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"Your time is precious, use it wisely."
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
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"Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive."
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"Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today."
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"Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done."
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"Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results."
10
"I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best."
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"If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living."
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"Focus is central to everything you do, and where your focus goes, energy flows."
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"No work is so important you have to do it."
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"The antidote to overwhelm is action."
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"For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time."
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"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
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"He is idle that might be better employed."
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"The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done."
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"You can't manage time. You can only manage your life. You can't strategically plan time, you can only plan your life."
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"The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking."
9
"Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity."
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"Let us work joyfully while we have the strength."
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"One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle."
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"That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work."
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"We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently."
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"You do not have the right to waste time."
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"How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says."
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"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
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"The Truth is doubted."
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"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."
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"Employment wastes the productive time of our lives."
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"To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded."
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"To get an effective product, you need to find your calling."
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"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."
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"It's either you are converting your time or not."
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"The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it."
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"To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater."
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"The world does not know how to concentrate on working."
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"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research."
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"You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future."
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"They laboriously do nothing."
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"Always allocate enough time to pursue the things that are of value to you."
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"Life must be lived in speed and focus."
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"Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day."
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