Evgeny Morozov Quotes

When I ask people how much time they spend not doing their job - time spent on 'work-about-work' or phone calls or e-mails - people regularly tell me 60, or even 90 percent. So if Asana could take that down closer to zero, we could potentially double the effectiveness of humanity.

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

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 spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.