Quotes About Efficiency

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

You can't direct without a good crew.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

Whether it's making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another IT project. It's going to save money; it's going improve a process here and there. It's not going to change their business.

I think I showed I'm resilient, I'm strong, I can go the distance against a bigger man and still box effectively.

Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

For the most part, teams don't want distractions.

Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.

There can be very cheap players that play very well, and maybe, expensive players, they don't do so well.

Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

I am fast and I always try to exploit that.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

You know, seeing the analytics explosion in the NBA. It wasn't something I was really into in college but in the NBA everything is numbers and how you can be more efficient, so that led to me trying to make my body more efficient, and obviously Fitbit was at the top of the line for that so it made sense.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

A little moisturizer and I'm out the door. I don't even need to put on mascara anymore because of my lash extensions.

I have always used e-mail to the greatest extent possible.

To the extent that anyone anywhere does anything interesting, the question is: 'Why isn't Apple doing that; why is Apple behind in that?' We aren't the Everything Company. We take on a very small number of things that we do very well, and we find that pretty rewarding.