Quotes About Efficiency

He wrote: "Most of these woolly phrases are mere padding, which can be left out altogether, or replaced by a single word. Let us not shrink from using the short expressive phrase, even if it is conversational." The resulting prose, he wrote, "may at first seem rough as compared with the flat surface of officialese jargon. But the saving of time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clear thinking.

The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly;

The resulting prose, he wrote, "may at first seem rough as compared with the flat surface of officialese jargon. But the saving of time will be great, while the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clear thinking.

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.

Turn the light on so your aim is better, he said mildly. All you did was waste a full beer.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

that most exciting perversion of life; the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should truly be allowed for its doing.

After all if I'm trying to write books without any extra words I might as well stick to it.

In our erotic life work does not work…trying is always trying too hard. Eroticism is an imaginative act, and you can't measure it. We glorify efficiency and fail to recognize that the erotic space is a radiant interlude in which we luxuriate, indifferent to demands of productivity; pleasure is the only goal.

We haven't the time to take our time.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

She probably doesn't think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous.

I never liked the way time went by when I worked for Sebastian. It wasn't that it dragged; it was completely the opposite. I would look up and discover that I had been swimming for hours and had never lifted my head up long enough to realize it. If anything, it contradicted the expression, Time flies when you're having fun. Time just evaporated

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space

It's not cheating; it's expedited nonlinear puzzle completion.

Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.

The single most important task of a manager is to elicit peak performance from his subordinates. So if two things limit high output, a manager has two ways to tackle the issue: through training and motivation.

The art of management lies in the capacity to select from the many activities of seemingly comparable significance the one or two or three that provide leverage well beyond the others and concentrate on them.

A common rule we should always try to heed is to detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest-value stage possible.

if your organization uses e-mail, a lot more people know what's going on in your business than did before, and they know it a lot faster than they used to.