Quotes About Efficiency

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

Read a recipe twice, weigh all the ingredients out before you start so that you don't forget something and start with a clean kitchen.

Even if the technology advances, I don't expect we will be allowed to sail around with 400-meter long container ships weighing 200,000 tonnes without any human beings on board. I don't think it will be a driver of efficiency - not in my time.

Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time.

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff.

I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough.