Productivity

40 Quotes About Productivity That Will Change Your Monday At Work

We are always in a state of productivity, it is only where our energy moves toward that matters.
Brianna Wiest
August 12, 2016
“Say nice things about your body, dress it up, and take it out. Give it hot sex, luxurious baths, and massages. Move it, stretch it, nourish it, hydrate it, pay attention to it—The better our bodies feel, the happier and more productive we are.”
— Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
Tagged: Life Hacks, Compliment Yourself, Treat Yourself, Happiness, Productivity
“Redefine your goal, so that it’s not to pursue justice or punish unfairness but to accept the unfairness of the world, bear the humiliation and helplessness that go with it, and then seek to do the most good.”
— Michael Bennett MD, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
Tagged: Life Hacks, Defining Goals, Goals, Humility, Helplessness, Do Good
“Each time you avoid saying no to something you really don’t want, you give away your power.”
— Amy Morin, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
Tagged: Life Hacks, Self Help, Saying No, Your Power, strength
“If you want to avoid repeating a mistake, spend some time studying it. Set any negative feelings you might have aside, acknowledge the factors that led up to your misstep, and learn from it.”
— Amy Morin, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
Tagged: Life Hacks, Self Help, Mistakes, Negative Feelings, Missteps, Avoiding Mistakes
“Buy Experiences Not Goods. Want to buy happiness? Then spend your hard-earned cash on experiences.”
— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
Tagged: Life Hacks, Money, Experiences, Material Things, Buying Happiness, Happiness
“In short, when it comes to an instant fix for everyday happiness, certain types of writing have a surprisingly quick and large impact. Expressing gratitude, thinking about a perfect future, and affectionate writing have been scientifically proven to work—and all they require is a pen, a piece of paper, and a few moments of your time.”
— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
Tagged: Life Hacks, Happiness, Writing, Journaling, Relfecting, Everyday Happiness, Quick Fixes
“The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting...lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.”
— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
Tagged: Life Hacks, Happiness, Creativity, Funny, Rigid Thinking, Thoughts
“The key is to take a larger project or goal and break it down into smaller problems to be solved, constraining the scope of work to solving a key problem, and then another key problem.”
— Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
Tagged: Life Hacks, Problem Solving, Work, Stress, Goals, Projects
“Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations.”
— Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Tagged: Life Hacks, How To Get Things Done, How To Get Things right, Checklists, Organization
“Start before you're ready.”
— Steven Pressfield, Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
Tagged: Life Hacks, How To Get Things Done, How To Get Things right, Being Brave
“Napoleon described his mind and work life as a series of drawers. Open one, shut the other.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life, Productivity
“It says a lot for [Napoleon's] ebullient self confidence, or maybe for his belief in his destiny; that having failed at one uncongenial end of Europe, he was ready to risk a second front at the other end, which was even less hospital to his methods.”
— Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A life
Tagged: Life, Productivity
“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: Passion, Dedication, Stress
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
— Stephen King, Awaken
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living (Bruce Lee Library)
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
— David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
— Charles Caleb, Lacon; Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
— Criss Jami, Healology
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
— Francine Jay, The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify (Updated and Revised)
“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.”
— David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”
— Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
— David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.”
— Dee Dee Artner, The Millionaire Focus: Find your focus, get the life you want and build the business you dreamed of
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
— David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.”
— David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“Touch paper only once.”
— Robert Allan, ROBERT BURNS COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 300+ WORKS All Poetry, Poems, Songs, Ballads, Letters, Rarities PLUS BIOGRAPHY [Annotated]
“If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.”
— Gerry Geek, GEEK'S QUESTIONS: THE ART OF ASKING YOURSELF
“Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics)
“My philosophy of life: ‘Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.”
— Clifford Cohen, Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
“Forget what we became, what matters is what we've become, and our potentials to overcome.”
— Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel, Anikee Touchuwku