Quotes About Efficiency

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work.

I am the type of person who can get ready in precisely five minutes, so I obviously just mix and match and wear whatever I am feeling like on that day.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Prejudices save time.

The Premier League is a results business.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.

The basic premise of math is about efficiency. And when you've got racism, sexism, and bigotry, that's just standing in the way of efficiency in our own progress.

I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

I think backstory is really important to know because I'm all about prep work. I like to do all of my work right away, as soon as I get it. I'm incapable of procrastinating on anything, so I like to do all of the work.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision.

If a team prepares well, a good team becomes even better.

With TV, you don't get much time to prepare. It's all done that day itself, on the set. Shoot, and leave.

Think of how much time it takes to prepare and eat a single meal. Then multiply that by seven. I wish I had my own chef!

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

There's no question that my son is better prepared for college than I was. He manages his time better, is more efficient and more directed, and spends less time in lines and more time doing exactly what he sets out to do.