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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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"The concept of work should be understood diligently."
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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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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
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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."
8
"Employment wastes the productive time of our lives."
7
"Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity."
7
"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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"Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you."
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"Your time is precious, use it wisely."
6
"You do not have the right to waste time."
6
"Let us work joyfully while we have the strength."
6
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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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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"No work is so important you have to do it."
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"To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded."
5
"Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later."
5
"That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work."
5
"He is idle that might be better employed."
5
"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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"Always allocate enough time to pursue the things that are of value to you."
5
"Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day."
4
"To get an effective product, you need to find your calling."
4
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
4
"When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own "Kaizin". Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits."
4
"The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it."
4
"It's either you are converting your time or not."
4
"The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done."
4
"The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it."
4
"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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"The world does not know how to concentrate on working."
4
"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research."
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"One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle."
4
"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 is central to everything you do, and where your focus goes, energy flows."
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"The antidote to overwhelm is action."
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"Life must be lived in speed and focus."
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"You must however pay attention to the fact that we don't only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc."
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"Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily."
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"To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time."
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"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
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"Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made."
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"The Truth is doubted."
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"Time used to do irrelevancies can be channeled into something productive instead."
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"Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth."
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"Proper and effective use of time yields good result."
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