"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"Consider everything an experiment."
— Corita Kent

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
— Samuel Butler

"Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values--that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others--that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human--that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay--that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live--that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road--that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up--that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

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— -PETER DRUCKER

"Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while."
— Corita Kent

"Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make."
— Corita Kent

"Why do anything unless it is going to be great?"
— Peter Block

"You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.""
— David Allen (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity)

"However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that "people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth.""
— Winifred Gallagher

"To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way."
— Corita Kent

"WHile one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior"
— Henry C.Link