Quotes About Efficiency

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Pamela Eells has been the most amazing leader. She's such a nurturing person, and that is what makes a woman such a great leader: she's nurturing but also gets stuff done.

I mean you look at apps like Uber, Postmates, Instacart, things that have revolutionized how quickly we can do stuff. I can be on a flight and schedule groceries to be delivered to my house and a car to pick me up when I land. It is nuts. And it is something that I will always be interested in.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Your objectives change throughout your career and with more experience you kind of use the energy for the good stuff and you don't burn energy for the wrong stuff.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

I'm obsessed with making lists.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today.

As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

Avoid with fury the killers of time.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

Pristojnost ?ovjeku samo oduzima vrijeme, ni?emu drugom ne koristi.

had once managed in half a day to replace the entire engine on a 1995 Mercedes with one from some old wreck, doing such a flawless job that the returning owner left the valet an especially large tip for having cleaned the car for him.