personal productivity Quotes

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

If you don't respect your time, no one will respect your time.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.

No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.

It's hard to explain to people how, if you're really capable of providing the right professional work environment, it allows you to get more personal.

I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

My to-do list is the only form of organization I have, other than my iCal. It's not all work stuff; it's a lot of movies that I want to watch sooner rather than later. I have a list that's like, 'Read an essay from this book, then this one, then go back to this one.'

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.