Quotes About Efficiency

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind of internal power from your work.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it on the hanger, and I go home.' And that's what I do.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

I don't own a blowdryer - I don't know how to use it. Most mornings, I walk to work with my hair wet.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

I just think things should work properly.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.