Quotes About Efficiency

she was a digital geek. He'd always considered himself pretty good at multitasking, but she truly had a gift. At any given moment, she could juggle up to three devices. She might be tweeting on her iPhone while taking a call, at the same time scheduling something on her iPad and uploading a video to the internet.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family's had to suffer for that, that I haven't done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

We could power a city with this energy, but it'd be a waste.

We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

The key to spring cleaning is to be ruthless! Throw out anything and everything you never use. (Or that may be incriminating. Burn, if necessary, but remember—if using gasoline, those fires should be contained in a non-flammable container.)

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.

Commit yourself to doing what is possible. Make a list of what you have to do tomorrow; eliminate activities that are unnecessary, and reschedule those that can and should be postponed

E-mail is an "opener," not a closer. Open it up first thing in the morning and you're off on a dozen different tasks. Instead, close something from the day before. Finish something first before you open something new.

A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds.

Wir verschwenden unsere Zeit", rief der Karierte. "Wir bündeln unsere Kräfte", sagte Gerhard. "Ich bitte um Ruhe und Geschlossenheit." "Schnauze jetzt!", schrie Kron. "Abmarsch!

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself.

Kate, on the other hand, always stood with her shoulders straight and tall, couldn't sit still if her life depended upon it, and walked as if she were in a race—and why not? she always wondered. If one was going somewhere, what could possibly be the point in not getting there quickly?

and walked as if she were in a race-and why not? she always wondered. If one was going somewhere, what could possibly be the point in not getting there quickly?

I come from a government in Indiana where we did get things done.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.