Productivity Quotes

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

Everything diminishes and everything is destructible.

Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know.

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

Greatness is bought with time and so is financial prosperity.

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.

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

Stop selling your life for peanuts.

Time is the raw material from which money is made.

Time is wealth from which everything comes.

If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you will become one of the best in the world.

The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.

It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives by just one product a year.

Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.

The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were born to do.

Your promise land should be your priority.

We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time

The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them.

I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.

Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.

You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents.

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.

Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

You must remember that whether you like it or not, every day your life is diminishing, your life is reducing and your life is pouring out. Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything, it’s your problem. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.

Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly.

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

With gospel-centered productivity, peace comes first, not second. the mistake we often make is to make peace of mind the result of things we do rather than the source.

Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.

If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority, and plan time to work on them.

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

It is true that you may have lost some time in the past. You may have allowed your life melt away with your time, but the good news is that you still have the future.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

If you, therefore, must be numbered among the great, you too must run for your life.

You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your life for greatness and greatness will deliver that thing you need to you.

For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.

Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life. To lose time is to lose a life. So don’t waste time!

To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products through hard work.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people .

You were given your life to make it a solution to the problems of the world but it is only through time conversion that you can create that solutions that the world needs.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.

Your daily product determines how far you go

We are all a product of incidence.

Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products.

The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.

To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.

Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.

I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that is neither “have to” or “want to.” That discovery freed me to move forward to make two other choices: I’m not going to be kicked out of this plane; and If I’m going to leave this plane, it will be under my own power. I’m going to maximize my chances of a safe exit. The change in my feelings at that moment was quite dramatic. Stress was replaced with purposeful action; a sense of victimhood was transformed into empowerment. There was no hesitation, no ambivalence.

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value. Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned among the great in your society.

Either you run the day or the day runs you

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.