Productivity Myth Quotes

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

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 even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.