Quotes About Efficiency

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.

I don't want to spread myself so thin that I achieve nothing.

I can't spread myself too thin.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Business has the unique ability to make things happen fast and at scale.

Great things happen when you converge services and devices.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning - like at 4:30 in the morning - you're going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.