Asking Quote by Kevin Drum

There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who…

— Harper Reed

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

— Bill Gates

Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from…

— Tom Rath

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

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think…

— Stewart Butterfield

“Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet…

— Gary Keller

Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for…

— Daniel Levitin

“Cognitive flexibility is an important executive function that reflects our ability to shift thinking and to produce a steady flow of creative thoughts and…

— John J. Ratey

“After several decades of empirical study, Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity.…

— John Brockman

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do…

— Michael Silverblatt

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat…

— David Rock