Quotes About Efficiency

When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil.

Most of us have little training in listening. We are far more efficient in thinking and speaking. Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love.

you harvesting to the very edges of your field in terms of time? — Gaye Clark

Right now, your company has 21st-century Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th-century management principles.

It is our bureaucracy-encrusted organizations that are slow witted, not the people inside them.

FIGURE 3-3 Bureaucrats and bureaucratic work as a percentage of the US workforce

Multitasking is a lie

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The worst thing about e-mail is that you can't interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It's frustrating and it's time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush.

I simply go about my passage swiftly and silently, with a certain deliberate, dark efficiency.

there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

The shortest answer is doing.

I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.

I think women are not as hung up on the testosterone thing. They're more collaborative. They multitask better, and I think they're more results-oriented. They just want to cut to the chase and get it done.