Charles Babbage Quotes

I kind of like working fast.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

I like to work fast.

My productivity is overwhelming!

The thing is to get the work done.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I get up and get it in. I’m addicted to the high function. To me it’s a work thing - if you meditate, you can get so much work done. I always say to people you know how about three nights a year you get a good night sleep? You can have it every day with meditation.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

It's always better to be doing.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Priority determines capacity.