Quotes About Efficiency

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.

It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force... There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force,' Holmes remarked. 'The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all they want is organization.

A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer--an absurd extravagance of energy--but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.

The more haste, the less speed

Basye, the tailor's wife, butted in. She was a tiny woman, who performed three jobs at once. She rocked the baby with her foot, darned a sock with her hands, and fussed and fumed with her mouth.

Los hombres eran endurecidos en Rabka para que no se derrumbaran tras unas pocas semanas de servicios y tenían que hacerse insensibles a la sangre, a los gritos de agonía de mujeres y niños, debiendo realizar el trabajo con el mínimo ruido y la máxima eficacia

Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is—a business administration !

My philosophy is best summed up by the phrase 'plain, simple, and useful.' Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

Mothers are multi-taskers.

By seven o'clock I've thrown away one lot of burned filo cases, baked another four, topped them with strawberries, and finished with heated-up apricot jam. I've pan-fried the vegetable shreds in olive oil and garlic till they're soft. I've blanched my French beans. I've put the sea bream in the oven. I've also taken more than a few sips of vermouth meant for the coulis, but that's neither here nor there

But if you're a lawyer at Carter Spink, you don't sit around. Not when every six minutes of your time is worth money. If I let six minutes of time tick away, I've lost the firm £50. Twelve minutes, £100. Eighteen minutes, £150. And the truth is, you get used to measuring your life in little chunks. And you get used to working. All the time.

I've learned to read a lot faster since I've been at Carter Spink.

In fact, I do everything faster. I walk faster, talk faster, eat faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have sex faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.