Productivity Quotes - Page 13

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it.

Choose the territory you want to conquer and invest your time into developing yourself in that area until you become the best.

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources.

Without solitude, we are overwhelmed by all the things we hope to do and all of the things we hope to do and all of the things we are planning and praying to do but we never really have the time to actually get down and get these things done.

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great. You must choose what territory you want to conquer.

If you do not work hard, nothing works.

You trivialize time when you don’t know what to do with it.

Convert every minute and hour of your life into perfecting your calling.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Your intensity increases your productivity

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

It doesn’t matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life.

As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

You need to pursue purpose and time to be productive

We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

Everybody, including you, potentially can be great.

You must, first of all, evolve the consciousness of being the best in whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it and you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

Always work and take productive actions, do not rely on prayers and fasting alone

The only way to make life fruitful is by being productive

There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.

You and I must learn and understand the value of time and how to invest it if we must achieve anything of worth in our lifetime.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

With a DO-CONFIRM checklist, he said, team members perform their jobs from memory and experience, often separately. But then they stop. They pause to run the checklist and confirm that everything that was supposed to be done was done. With a READ-DO checklist, on the other hand, people carry out the tasks as they check them off--it's more like a recipe.

You become void of products when you waste your time in religious meetings every day.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.

You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn’t waste your time here on earth.

You will boost your productivity with active exercise.

Time is the greatest wealth in the world and only through conversion of time can money be made.

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Only when that time is converted can you produce something from it. You can only make wealth from a time well converted.

Create the best of yourself, become your best self.

Manipulative Leaders Create Distrust and selfishnessTransactional Leaders Create Mediocrity and complacencyMotivational Leaders Create Positivity and ActionInfluential Leaders Create Growth and Empowerment Servant-Leaders Create Authenticity and Explosive GrowthTransformational Leaders Create Change and Leave Legacies

Without work, time cannot be converted and it will waste away.

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

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness with time.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.

How well you run determines whether or not you will win or lose.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

Greatness is not greater than you, you have total control over greatness.

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS – major on the major things in life, not the minors.

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