Productive Quotes

“In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

“It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are living in the darkest of time means that Allah thinks you can be the strongest source of light.

Allah thinks you -- you -- were born for this time. That's Allah's decision. Which means you have something significant to offer the world. You have some serious trees to plant. And you have to not get overwhelmed with the news around you. Even if dajjal is tapping you on the shoulders. Say (to Dajjal), "Hold on, I'm planting a tree".

You do what you gotta do. You gotta focus.”
― Nouman Ali Khan

“I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. I don’t like excluding people. I’m a perfectionist, but I won’t let that get in the way of publication. Except for education and entertainment, I’m not going to waste my time on things that won’t have an impact. I try to be friends with everyone, but I hate it when you don’t take me seriously. I don’t hold grudges, it’s not productive, but I learn from my experience. I want to make the world a better place.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.”
― Nathaniel Branden

“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.”
― Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“What about inner productivity? Don’t you consider it worthy or relevant at all? We are all too focused on the outer world. But what about our mind? What about the world that exists inside us?”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“As interference of two beams of light can strengthen or weaken each other,
then so does religious differences can be truly productive or a total setback.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Symbols of productivity ARE NOT productivity.”
― Richie Norton

“You can't do enough tomorrow to make up for not doing anything today. That's why it's best to have started yesterday.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To be fruitful and productive is to invest in time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When you invest in life, you are being fruitful and productive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You need to live a productive life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Always evaluate and determine the product of your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A life without concrete product is a meaningless one”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Your daily actions should be productive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“She’d transformed from an athlete who sat in her own suffering to an athlete who decided that facing her fears with a “just start” mindset was a more productive approach.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“We must be productive to behold the heavenly blessings.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Time is relatively useless if you don't make it productive”
― Topsy Gift, I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN

“Once you start being productive, dopamine is released in the striatum and parts of the prefrontal cortex. Suddenly you’ll have more energy and motivation to do the thing you really need to do.”
― Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

“Turn your frustrations into something productive.”
― Steven Magee

“Procrastinators are addicted to immediacy. If it doesn’t have to be done now, they’ll do it later. No one is more productive than a procrastinator with an impending deadline.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management Lib/E: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“My purpose is waiting for me to step into it. And I should do that the moment that I step out of bed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If our plan today is to write three thousand words, rock a presentation with our leadership team, and catch up on our email, and we successfully accomplish all of those, we were perfectly productive. Likewise, if we intend to have a relaxing day and manage to do absolutely nothing, we're again perfectly productive. Being busy doesn't make us productive. It doesn't matter how busy we are if that busyness doesn't lead us to accomplish anything of importance. Productivity is not about cramming more into our days but about doing the right thing in each moment.”
― Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus*