Quotes About Efficiency

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I don't have to tell you folks about scuba diving. So, that'll save some time.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

No, I don't believe in the wasting of time, But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.