Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was productive. Time spend with m...
(n.) The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthrig...
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth b...
It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
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...
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant...
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structu...
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours
We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repe...
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...
You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.
Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment...
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