Very occasional quote of the day: productivity

If people saw the way I lived, they’d realize that I spend a huge amount of time just relaxing and goofing off, watching baseball on television, going to movies, taking walks, playing jazz, and practicing my clarinet. I don’t work around the clock at all.

How productive is my output? A film every year at most, probably even a little longer than that, and occasional magazine pieces and that’s really it. It’s not all that much work. If you work only three to five hours a day, you become quite productive. It’s the steadiness of it that counts. Getting to the typewriter every day is what makes for productivity.

– Woody Allen, interview with Robert F. Moss, Saturday Review, 1980

2 thoughts on “Very occasional quote of the day: productivity

  1. Hey Todd love the blog, fuck woody allen tho… don't wipe away the dignity of yr blog with his BS. Thx!

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