Productivity Quotes - Page 15

If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and do so frequently.

We are all products of the failures of the people who raised us.

When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must be converted and days must be converted.

You were born to convert the evaporating life into some impact on humanity.

It is from your time that wealth is produced, it is time that produces results and product.

Begin to invest your time into research and studies about how you could impact your world positively because only through the proper conversion of time could you become great.

When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.

One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to create your ideal self.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

If you want to be among the few who rule the world, you, therefore, must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by. The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something.

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

The smallest of action is better than the greatest of intentions.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

You too can buy greatness by converting your time into greatness through hard work.

You just don’t allow time to while away but you take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

To convert a day is to produce a product

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.

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.

Every man must choose what they want to do with their time to avoid regret in the future.

To work for salary is to mortgage your life.

Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.

It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.

You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great.

If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.

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.

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

No amount of organization and time management will compensate for a lack of Christian character, not when it comes to this great calling of glory through good—bringing glory to God by doing good to others.

The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to yourself.

Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time.

Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value.

You are not supposed to be here in this world and not leave something for which you could be called great.

Whether you like it or not, your life is passing away.

Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life.

Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.

If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.

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.

Be always employed to something useful.

Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.

One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.

People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.

Only men who have invested time to become the best in what they do are fit to sit and dine with great men.

If you really want to be financially wealthy, you must begin to convert your time into producing something for the world.

Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time

Be fearless in releasing the productivity of your time

Your time is diminishing per every second and minute that passes.

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

If you don’t want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!

Only when time is converted can you produce something from it.

To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up.

Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness. Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations. Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness.

To invest your time is to convert it into some products that could benefit humanity.

Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told and for you not to even think about it that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time.

So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.

It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.

All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.

The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.