Quotes About Efficiency

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.