One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
“The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days. Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Dwelling in the shit of life wasn’t productive. Either you checked out or you checked in. This life isn't for the weak,” — Nina Levine Copy Share Image
“People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. — James Alison Copy Share Image
“Give yourself space to feel. Emotional rest means dropping the mask and saying no when you need to.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
“As David Allen points out in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, this is one of the critical… — Chris Ducker Copy Share Image
“Our ability to extinguish new ideas is critical to productivity and to our capacity to scale existing projects. In a team setting,… — Belsky, Scott Copy Share Image
“The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other… — Robert M. Olsen Copy Share Image
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann on… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“When your race on earth is finally over and your time has completely disappeared, what will continue to live on in the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I’m not leaving the plane that way,” I said to myself. That’s when I discovered the power of choice—a third place that… — Neil A. Fiore Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
“Carl Anderson and his colleagues have discussed several advantages and disadvantages of a chain transport of harvest to nests, as in Atta… — Bert Hölldobler Copy Share Image
“Output had fallen to about half that figure in the last years of the Red empire, causing a cigarette shortage so severe… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
May your day be filled with positive light, productivity and forward progress! — Anonymous Copy Share Image