Quotes on Productive Work

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.