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Quotes About Convenience

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
~ Daniel Kahneman
I want to feed my kid something that is real and not processed. It's hard to do. People are working and busy. The question is: Is it worth it? Is it worth stopping at the farm stand or supermarket to buy fresh ingredients?
~ Tom Colicchio
When I order sandwiches or coffee, I don't give my name: I'll say 'David' or something. It's just not worth it. They never mess 'David' up. I just want my sandwich; I just want my coffee.
~ Tennys Sandgren
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
~ Alan Kay
We weren't without food, but there were times when it was definitely a strain. I ate a ton of Hot Pockets and SpaghettiOs and Totino's Pizza Rolls. I still enjoy those flavors.
~ Patti Harrison
It's the polar opposite of most people, but I absolutely hate carrying a ton of stuff onto a plane. I check in all my luggage and literally go through security with nothing other than my coat, in which I have my iPhone and iPad.
~ Paul Hollywood
I use Olay Total Effects Tone Correcting CC Cream in place of foundation post-workout. I absolutely love that it's quick, easy, and something I can use on the go. It evens out my skin tone, provides SPF 15 protection, and leaves my skin feeling breathable, healthy, and moisturized.
~ Oksana Masters
If you don't have the time or money to get to the gym, work out at home. It saves tons of time and makes life more efficient.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
~ Barton Gellman
I have a SIM card ejector tool everywhere I go. It's probably not a normal thing to have, but as a guy who's moving between phones often, I kind of have to have one.
~ Marques Brownlee
Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.
~ Ronnie Wood
I'm one of those people who has a toothbrush and toothpaste with me at all times. After lunch, I'll brush my teeth in a restaurant bathroom!
~ Morena Baccarin
The doors of Target opened with a welcoming swoosh, and I was instantly distracted. Yeah. Target does that to me. I feel at home. They've got stuff I need. Stuff I don't need. Stuff I didn't even know I wanted. Neatly placed and waiting for me. I love that place.
~ Sharon M. Draper
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.
~ Regina Brett
The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
~ Elton John
There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
~ Jeff Bezos
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
~ Maria Semple
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I love my iPhone it's great to have a camera around all the time.
~ Win Butler
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!
~ Monica Johnson
I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.
~ Lauren Conrad
Moeller came to AFB from Frito-Lay, where his job was to design, well, powdered flavor coatings for edible extruded shapes. "There are," he allows, "a lot of parallels." A Cheeto without its powdered coating has almost no flavor.* Likewise, the sauces on processed convenience meals are basically palatants for humans.
~ Mary Roach
Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.
~ Matthew Pearl