56 Movie Quotes about Productivity (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about productivity, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 You never hear somebody say, 'With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.' You don't hear that.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

12 Today, we rest. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

13 (whip cracking) Back to work, you braying mules.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

14 Happiness is making a schedule and keeping to it.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

15 From this second on, we do everything double time. Better yet, make that triple time. And we'll do it together to make sure it gets done right.

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

16 Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

17 Whenever you come in here and interrupt, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me and it will then take me time to get back to where I was. Understand?

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980)

18 Listen, Bug. Listen good. Are you listening? Get back to work!

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

19 I had enough fun and relaxation. I got a whole system of subterranean shortcuts to build.