Productivity Cycle Quotes

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

I think work begets work.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

My creative juices flow seasonally.