Busy Vs Productive Quotes

#1. The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Adam Gopnik

#2. I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

Jim Leyland

#3. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

Michael Harris

#4. Being busy is not the same as being productive.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time.

Vishwas Chavan

#6. The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

Janusz Korczak

#7. Like Santa Claus. You adults pretend he doesn't exist, but we know that he really does.

Orson Scott Card

#8. Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

Jeff Olson

#9. 22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Anonymous

#10. It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.

Randall Wright

#11. Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Tom Hodgkinson

#12. If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.

Sean Bean

#13. I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.

Michael Jackson

#14. We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Danielle LaPorte

#15. Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

Lauren Mackler

#16. If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Steve Carell

#17. Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

Rachel Carson

#18. How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204

Chetan Bhagat

#19. It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Johnny Depp

#20. What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.

George Gilder

#21. A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Zig Ziglar

#22. I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.

Chris Hardwick

#23. Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

Jorgen Leth

#24. Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Timothy Ferriss

#25. I've seen many sales reps who thought they were being productive by sending out mail. In fact, they were just busy.

Art Sobczak