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Productivity Quotes
"Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically."
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"To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded."
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"We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency."
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"The Truth is doubted."
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"You do not have the right to waste time."
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"Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively."
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"Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction."
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"Step back and scrutinize your work, to delve deep into the meaning behind the words, it will get both easier in some ways and harder in others. Either way, you need to practice everyday. You will probably get faster with time, because you learn to do this instinctively, and the writing may flow better on some days more than others, but it doesn't get easier. And if you aren't writing everyday, you are doing yourself and your craft a disservice. Writing is a habit. Get into the habit."
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"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
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"If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress."
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"Let us work joyfully while we have the strength."
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"I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what."
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"Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year."
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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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"When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can't sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature."
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"The world does not know how to concentrate on working."
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"I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday."
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"This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success."
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"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
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"To get an effective product, you need to find your calling."
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"Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence."
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"Work hard. Work smart. Remain grounded. Serve others and be enthusiastic."
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"You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work."
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"Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."
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"Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves, that of not giving appropriate value to their own time."
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"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."
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"Employment wastes the productive time of our lives."
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"The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it."
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"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
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"I'm telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol' secret to seeing your dreams come true."
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"To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance."
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"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."
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"When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it."
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"Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses."
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"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research."
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"The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have."
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"What are you NOT working on that you should?"
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"All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them."
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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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"In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do."
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"Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality, when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash."
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"Multi-tasking is stressful. You will get things done much faster if you do them one at a time."
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"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."
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"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
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"Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night."
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"To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious."
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"Life must be lived in speed and focus."
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"Your productivity will double with increase physical activity."
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