Quotes About Efficiency

carrying a mobile phone and an electronic diary. A short stocky

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch up cars to deliver us to our whims. The largest companies in America, from Amazon to Uber to Facebook, want to fill the air with buzzing drones dropping from the skies whatever you want and more of it. Manna is now always on the delivery menu.

We humans are not getting more evil or sinful but are simply getting more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do--including sin as willed violence. And so, we have become, as Genesis 4 warned us inaugurally, steadily or even exponentially better and better at violence. And now, at last, that capacity threatens not just the family or the tribe, but the world and the Earth.

Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

Live your life by doing activities that are beneficial

A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

Modularity permits the efficient discrimination of context.

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

Whatever you do, please don't think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

Structure is the vessel needed to contain the mercury of the ADD mind, to keep it from being here and there and everywhere all at once. Structure allows the ADD mind to be put to best use, rather than dissipating itself like so many tiny beads of mercury on the floor.