Productivity quotes
Welcome to our Productivity quotes page! Here, you will find a collection of insightful and motivating quotes to inspire and ignite your passion for achieving more in your personal and professional life.
Productivity is the key to making the most out of your time and resources, allowing you to accomplish your goals and fulfill your potential. Whether you are seeking guidance on how to stay focused, manage your time effectively, or maintain a positive mindset, these quotes will provide you with powerful words of wisdom from accomplished individuals who have mastered the art of productivity.
Within this category, you will encounter quotes that emphasize the importance of discipline, perseverance, and determination. Discover the secrets shared by successful entrepreneurs, renowned leaders, and influential thinkers who have harnessed the power of productivity to reach extraordinary heights. These quotes will serve as daily reminders to push through challenges, eliminate distractions, and maximize your efficiency in all aspects of life.
So, if you are ready to boost your productivity and unlock your true potential, dive into our collection of inspiring quotes. Let these words inspire you to take action, overcome obstacles, and ultimately create a life filled with accomplishment and fulfillment.
Joyce Carol Oates
— Author'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA writer's work is the product of laziness.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestGreat works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerGoals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
Tracey Edmonds
— American businesswoman, television producer and personalityHappy Monday Fam! Let's make it a positive and productive week! Be proud of the strides you've made and BE EXCITED about what YOU WILL accomplish!
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanI have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.
Bipasha Basu
— Indian actress and modelI'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorIf you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.
Abdolkarim Soroush
— Iranian PhilosopherWhen I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
Andrew Carnegie
— Scottish BusinessmanConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Alvin Leung
— English ChefAirplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhen writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsMake the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDeadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThere is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesThere's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerWe all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI get a little too obsessive with work.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsCreation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerIf you want to stay youthful, stay useful.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDon't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorProductivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDon't equate activity with efficiency.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorProductivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerEgo stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorProbably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerWhen you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYou can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerWorrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDecide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.