#productivity

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. ↗

— Corita Kent

#productivity #art

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#competence #job-doing #productivity #business

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a calm facial expression with crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanor i believe in a human being that is not upset i believe if you are working i should not be insane or upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working? i vacuumed the entire house this morning i cleaned the kitchen and the computer room and i made you a meat helmet with computer paper the opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are alone and separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of moments and the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinking your hands are covering your face and your body moves like a statue when i try to manipulate an appendage if i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time ↗

— Tao Lin

#impermanence #indifferent-universe #meat-helmet #productivity #sadness

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#productivity #motivational

Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#simplicity

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#capital #depend #down #heading #human

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#improving #increase #just #key #looking

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#competing #creating #economy #future #globalization

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. ↗

— James Sinegal

#along #class #disenchanted #disenfranchised #dynamics