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Quotes About Efficiency

Sen. Proxmire, the watchdog of the scientific community, has tracked down and reported taxpayer-financed scientific research that is redundant, unnecessary, or just plain silly. Those projects that represent an egregious waste of taxpayer money are given his highest award, known as the Golden Fleece. Many of the projects that win the award seem amusing, until one examines the cost.
~ Douglas Preston
In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.
~ Douglas Preston
Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.
~ Aesop
The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
~ Aesop
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
~ Agatha Christie
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
~ Agatha Christie
Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically
~ Agatha Christie
A man travels fastest who travels alone.
~ Agatha Christie
Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.
~ Agatha Christie
She could be attractive when she wanted to be but life had taught her that efficiency and competence often paid better results and avoided painful complications.
~ Agatha Christie
With method and logic one can accomplish anything!
~ Agatha Christie
So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.
~ Agatha Christie
Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.
~ Agatha Christie
If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.
~ Agatha Christie
Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
~ Agatha Christie
Twenty minutes' work after breakfast every morning keeps the flag going to perfection. You have nothing to complain of, have you?" "Your
~ Agatha Christie
It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.
~ Agatha Christie
Temple was a tall girl of thirty-two or three. She had a certain smartness—her hair was well brushed and glossy, but she was not pretty. Her manner was calm and efficient. "M.
~ Agatha Christie
the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
~ Agatha Christie
If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it—none whatever,' said Poirot severely.
~ Agatha Christie
Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.
~ Agatha Christie
Don't use " backspace " every moment ,, because every time you do ,, you kill a space !!
~ Ahmed Hussein