Quotes About Efficiency

To understand why sludge matters, let's begin with the assumption that people are fully rational and that in deciding whether to wade through sludge, they make some calculation about costs and benefits. Even if the benefits of that wading are high, the costs might prove overwhelming.

Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-"freshwater" and "saltwater," Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Go for efficiency, elegance, and grace in your motions; avoid hasty shortcuts. Rather than thinking about getting the job finished and going on to something else, stay wholly focused on the moment, on the task at hand. Above all, don't hurry. You might discover that by not hurrying you'll finish the dishes sooner than would ordinarily be the case.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

All fear does is waste time.

In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy.

There are kinds of people and kinds of work. There are people who file and people who pile. There are doers and dreamers.

Un bon projet exécuté tout de suite vaut mieux qu'un excellent projet exécuté la semaine prochaine.

Will you not weep?" "I do not have the time for tears.

There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,

I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

Free government works well in proportion as government is superfluous.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

But I don't like working. I do the absolute minimum that is necessary to reach a decision. There are many people who love working. They amass an inordinate amount of information, much more than is necessary to reach a conclusion. And they become attached to certain investments because they know them intimately. I am different. I concentrate on the essentials. When I have to, I work furiously because I am furious that I have to work. When I don't have to, I don't work.

Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.

The Invitation of Love If we want to set the relationship between efficiency and love in its rightful order, we must go beyond laws and proclamations. If we desire a more loving society, we individual persons must return to the deepest common sense of our hearts; we must claim love as our true treasure. Then comes the difficult part: we must try to live according to our desire in the moment-by-moment experiences of our lives.