Quotes About Efficiency

Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Microwave Oven - When you zap, your food turns to crap. -Johnny The Walker

The answer pinged back within seconds. I smiled. How did girls that age type so quickly when they did everything else so slowly?

Call your most energetic hours A time. Your goal is to protect your A time from all the B and C tasks that tend to fill it up. B tasks require alertness and focus, but not necessarily your best creative energy. C tasks are mostly rote—work that doesn't require as much insight or creativity as writing does. Start valuing yourself enough to assign A time to A tasks, B time to B tasks, and C time to C tasks.

Activity does not mean achievement

To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own.

A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results

Three decades ago, Robert Nisbet recognized that environmentalism was poised to become "the third great redemptive struggle in Western history, the first being Christianity, the second modern socialism." Western society, wrote Nisbet, was moving from "the Gospel of Capitalist Efficiency to the Gospel of Utopianism." One need not wade too deeply into the literature of a "steady state" or carbon-free economy to see the wisdom in Nisbet's prediction.

o kad taip visi nustot? dirb? lygiai tre?i? valand? kasdien ir išvalyt? visus kambarius tai Niujorke nebeb?t? tiek tarakon?.

If something does not directly differentiate you from your competition and drive business value creation, see if there is an AWS building block that can take care of it for you. There probably is. Then use that building block instead of wasting your time and effort recreating something that is a utility.

Part of the culture of modernity took shape around various affirmations that there could be individual gratification from emulating the impervious rhythms, efficiency, and dynamism of mechanization.

Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don't really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

But when secular organizations demand sacrifice, every member has a right to ask for a cost-benefit analysis, and many refuse to do things that don't make logical sense. In other words, the very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient, and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship.

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

Societies that forgo the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully on what will happen to them over several generations. We don't really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

he simply picked the cages that produced the most eggs in each generation. Then he bred all of the hens in those cages to produce the next generation. Within just three generations, aggression levels plummeted. By the sixth generation, the death rate fell from the horrific baseline of 67 percent to a mere 8 percent. Total eggs produced per hen jumped from 91 to 237, mostly because the hens started living longer, but also because they laid more eggs

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Cohen said, "Okay, no sense dillydallying

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.