Quotes About Streamlining

anything that doesn't serve the plot has to go.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The art of the deletion: streamlining your prose, keeping it focused and true to the story's narrative pace without denuding it.

Uncluding is the art of subtracting every element that doesn't pull its weight.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

Analyze your diary by determining what seems excessive in your judgment. You might begin by asking, "What could I live without—or at least with less of?

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Lowering the river of inventory is the heart of lean manufacturing.  Keep this centered in your mind and practice it.  People have a tendency to complicate things.  It is only because they really don't fully understand and appreciate the simplicity and power of reducing inventory.

Readily identifies more efficient ways of doing business

Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.