Quotes About Efficiency

Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body's energy when the body is at rest. By comparison, the brains of other apes require only 8 per cent of rest-time energy.

They moved with a minimum of effort and noise, and knew how to sit, walk and run in the most agile and efficient manner. Varied and constant use of their bodies made them as fit as marathon runners. They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi.

The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body. It's not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. It's even harder to fuel. In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body's energy when the body is at rest.

Good design is as little design as possible.

He would have his plans take effect with the speed of fire

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

a manager "is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." —James J. Ling

Why settle for the 'get by' when in the long run the good costs less?

The Bible does say, 'Pray without ceasing,' but I don't see where it says you have to stop working in order to pray. As a matter of fact, I believe that anybody who can walk and chew gum at the same time can work and pray at the same time."—ZIG ZIGLAR

When I learned how to plan each day and set specific goals, I became more focused on the things that really make a difference.

The busier you get, the more you get done.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

A curved bar partially divided the large front room. Behind it, a young woman with curly blond hair tied back with a red bandanna drew pints with cheerful efficiency. "What can I get for you?" she asked, smiling, as they reached the bar. "Just some information," said Gemma, returning the smile and holding up her warrant card. The girl's eyes widened. She glanced to either side, checking that

Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

In Visa, we tried to create an invisible organization and keep it that way. It's the results, not the structure or management that should be apparent

You won't know what your brain can do until you test its limits and push beyond them. No matter how inefficiently you are using your brain, one thing is certain: it is the gateway to your future. Your success in life depends on your brain, for the simple reason that all experience comes to us through our brains.

No sabrás lo que tu cerebro puede hacer hasta que establezcas sus límites e intentes traspasarlos. Sin importar con cuánta eficiencia utilices tu cerebro ahora, hay una cosa segura: es la puerta hacia tu futuro. Tu éxito en la vida depende de tu cerebro, por la simple razón de que vivimos todas nuestras experiencias gracias al cerebro.

Por ese motivo, perseguir la «calidad de origen» (es decir, hacer las cosas bien de entrada) es más rentable que conformarse con resultados «pasables».

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Yellow cat, black cat, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.