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Productivity Quotes
"We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency."
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"The world does not know how to concentrate on working."
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"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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"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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"Employment wastes the productive time of our lives."
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"Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop."
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"To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater."
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"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."
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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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"Life must be lived in speed and focus."
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
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"Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence."
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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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"Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research."
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"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
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"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."
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"The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it."
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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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"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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"Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day."
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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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"Your productivity will double with increase physical activity."
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"Begin to lay hold of every minute of your life and convert it into something of value to benefit the world. Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life."
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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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"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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"Each day, wake up with a plan. Don't just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness."
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"How often do you find yourself saying, "In a minute", "I'll get to it" or "Tomorrow's good enough" and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it's got to be done, so let's get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is."
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"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
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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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"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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"To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time."
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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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"Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption, it corrupts valuable time."
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"Do not spend all your strength to make money."
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"I am a better person when I have less on my plate."
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"Love of bustle is not industry."
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"Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses."
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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 hard. Work smart. Remain grounded. Serve others and be enthusiastic."
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"The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight."
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"Everything is a product of time because it took a particular period of time to achieve that result."
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"A little time can help you to make a great impact, therefore you should never despise few minutes. Do it till it's done and done well!"
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"Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list."
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"Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done."
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"Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily."
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"Planning provides certainty."
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"The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems."
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"Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS " major on the major things in life, not the minors."
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"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."
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