Get started. Starting a project is the biggest barrier to productivity.

Get started. Starting a project is the biggest barrier to productivity.

Zeigarnik effect: When you do not finish a task you experience discomfort and intrusive thoughts about it.

Get started. Starting a project is the biggest barrier to productivity.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

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

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

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.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

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.

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

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.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.