Inspirational Productivity Quotes & Sayings

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. — Dean Wesley Smith

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change. — Knut Hamsun

Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. — Marston James

Your life as an effective person must always have productivity surrounding all your efforts, there must be a sustained forward and upward trajectory in every area of your life. This is where the Shona Shereketa meets the Japanese Kaizen - you are moving and shaking past mediocrity on the basis of small but continuous improvements that will ultimately result in positive quality changes to your life. — Archibald Marwizi

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

One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You will boost your productivity with active exercise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. — Abraham H. Maslow

The only doors that open are the ones you knock on. — Scott Marquart

Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today. — Noel DeJesus

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time. — Lauren DeStefano

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind. — Andrew Taylor

Good well-being promotes good productivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't shop as much as I find. — Vincent Piazza

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. — Anthony Biglan

Your attitude is a choice you make. — Denis Waitley

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Was there a poet who hadn't written about skylarks? — Kate Atkinson

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. — Vicente Del Bosque

We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits — Lailah Gifty Akita

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it. — Jason Fried