Quote by John J. Ratey

I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.

— Olivia Palermo

“Research has shown that creativity is enhanced when performing straightforward mechanical tasks such as jogging, cooking and driving. Unobstructed thinking time is always useful.”

— Graeme Simsion

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to…

— Torrey DeVitto

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like…

— Twyla Tharp

“Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that…

— John C. Maxwell

“We know from project management that there is usually slippage, and tasks almost always take longer than what one envisions. There is also no…

— Gloria Mark

“Experiments have shown that people with SMART goals are more likely to seize on the easiest tasks, to become obsessed with finishing projects, and…

— Charles Duhigg

I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I…

— Jeet Banerjee

“To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.”

— Cal Newport

I have read that, when you are writing or working on something creative, and your attention wanders, your brain is processing and working on…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper rather than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.”

— Scott Adams