Quotes About Efficiency

Waste of time is waste of time for everyone.

The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

I don't really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don't know what I would do without it.

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

I would love a robot butler.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

Some people simply knew what they were supposed to be doing and did it, and those people were the worst of all. Stevie's brain had to hit a white-hot pitch of panic before it was willing to do any real work. It would work quickly then. It was a good brain, but it had only two modes—fog and frenzy.

Como se imaginaba su equipo ya estaba trabajando a marchas forzadas. Cada uno se afanaba en su misión, pero nadie iba con prisas. Trabajar rápidamente, les había enseñado Caine, invocando una antigüa regla de entrenador, pero sin prisas. No era un mantra sin sentido: cuando vas con prisas, pasas por alto cosas. No obstante, la lluvia empeoraba y les quedaba poco tiempo. La madre naturaleza hacía de cómplice de un asesino.

He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us on the technical side to understand why the company required so many managers. Engineers built things. Salespeople sold things. Even Human Resources I could understand, kind of. But managers proliferated despite performing very few identifiable functions.

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies.

Chapter 10 Precision and Professionalism

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

you can burn just as many calories walking as you can running. So why run?

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

Make life easier for you.

I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.

The classroom is one of the most dynamic work settings precisely because we are given such a short amount of time to do so much.