Quotes About Efficiency

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Recording is just a lengthy process, so to have to record before every professional video, that's where a real time drain comes in.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

In my case, my videos are zero-cost productions. I don't spend a single penny on them. I take 15 to 16 days to come up with a video and do one or two videos a month. That's a long time.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

My time is short," he told Garrett brusquely. "Can you comb any faster?" "Ask me that again," Garrett replied equably, "and this comb will soon be lodged in a place it wasn't meant to go." Bazzle snickered, evidently gathering her meaning.

As Tom followed her through the clothing department, he had to admit Cassandra knew what she was doing. She went briskly past counters and shelves, addressed store clerks by name, and located what she wanted without hesitation. "You shop very efficiently," he said begrudgingly. "Practice," came her airy reply.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These

Life's too short to fold fitted sheets!

Know what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. It'll suck you dry, like it is right now.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

It's recently been discovered that actual living systems such as photosynthetic bacteria in plants are using funky quantum weirdness techniques to make energy transport in plants and bacteria be much, much more efficient. It was kind of a drag because, you know, we discovered all these cool quantum techniques, and then we found out, whoa, these bacteria have been doing it for a billion years! Well, they didn't publish, so it's okay.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

We therefore have to choose between an atonement of high efficiency which is perfectly accomplished, and an atonement of wide extension which is imperfectly accomplished. We cannot have both. If