Quotes About Efficiency

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

PUTIN: "No civilized state can live without a legislative institution. A great deal depends on the Duma. We expect efficient, systematic work." ALEXANDER

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!

Efficiency, liberty, justice, equality, the demands of the individual, and the demands of the group—all these things push us in different directions. And this, Berlin wrote, is unacceptable to many people:

I should mention that all of the above explorers were unqualified failures. Not coincidentally, they were also all British. Americans admire success. Englishman admire heroic failure. Given a choice -- at least in my reading -- I'm un-American enough to take quixotry over efficiency any day.

brush my teeth, curl my hair, manicure my nails and dab peroxide on my upper lip to bleach the black hairs — all this in less than half an hour.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system's resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed.

Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen.

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to. She

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to.

While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home—each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)