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Quotes About Efficiency

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
~ Evgeny Morozov
I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
~ Ewan McGregor
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.
~ Frances Parkinson Keyes
I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.
~ Frank Gehry
I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.
~ Freida Pinto
If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.
~ Gary W. Keller
Those who never have time do least
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
~ George H. W. Bush
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
~ George Herbert
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
~ Gil Kane
I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.
~ Henriette Mantel
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.
~ Igor Babailov
I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
~ Ina Garten
It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.
~ Indira Gandhi
Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.
~ Ivanka Trump
As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
~ Jack Markell
If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.
~ Jack Welch
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
~ Jack Welch
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
~ James Agate
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
~ James Altucher
Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.
~ James Kerr
Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.
~ Jean Chatzky
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
We lose all that time which we might employ better.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau