Quotes About Efficiency

We have not the time to take our time.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Invest time, don't spend it.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.