Quotes About Efficiency

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.

If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it's a waste of time.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

No time is wasted time

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!