Quotes About Efficiency

If you pit a good employee against a bad system, the system will win almost every time" (Rummler and Brache, 1995, p. 75).

The rules of Qannabbi are simple and elegant. Each team has five players. There's two Trimmers, one Grinder, one Rollpacker, and one Toker. The goal is for the team to clean, prepare and consume their marijuana as quickly and efficiently as possible.

The space shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

I used to worry about being more efficient. Now, I think, 'Why? What is velocity, and why is that the ultimate value of everything?' The process is really messy, but it's so fun--and you discover weird things that you can only get from just meandering through stuff.

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

I realize that we are often slaves to the scheduling demands of others, but thanks to the shortness of these workouts, hopefully you'll be able to squeeze two in a few days a week. (Leave at least six hours between workouts to maximize your gains.) Again, an ideal schedule would look like this: MON cardio (A.M.) upper body (P.M.) TUES lower body (A.M. OR P.M.) WED cardio (A.M.) abs (P.M.) THURS cardio (A.M. OR P.M.) FRI off SAT long circuit (A.M. OR P.M.) SUN off

Some don't like to see this (vaccination rollout) as a race but a race it surely is. What I didn't know was that [NSW] Premier [Gladys] Berejiklian's in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some sort of egg and spoon thing.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Why is targeted, mistake-focused practice so effective? A: Because the best way to build a good circuit is to fire it, attend to mistakes, then fire it again, over and over. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.

In one study, adolescents preparing for the PSAT who used this method chose to complete 60 percent more practice questions than the control group. In another, dieters consumed significantly fewer calories, were more physically active, and lost more weight.

group's performance by 30 to 40 percent. The drop-off is consistent whether he plays the Jerk, the Slacker, or the Downer.

One study found that workers who shared a location emailed one another four times as often as workers who did not, and as a result they completed their projects 32 percent faster.)

No time plus no space equals better skills.

that the unconscious mind is able to process 11 million pieces of information per second, while the conscious mind can manage a mere 40. This disproportion points to the efficiency and necessity of relegating mental activities to the unconscious—and helps us to understand why appeals to the unconscious can be so effective.

I read more than Mandy Lethbridge, and Im faster at it too.

Operations analysts turned to questions of what the mix should be of explosives and different sorts of incendiaries for the most efficient, cost-effective ways to burn German workers and their families alive.

decisions and negotiations, should be conducted earlier in the day

elite performers have something in common: They're really good at taking breaks

High performers, its research concludes, work for fifty-two minutes and then break for seventeen minutes.

coffee, followed by a nap of ten to twenty minutes, is the ideal technique

Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength

So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.

start planning how to achieve those top five goals. And the other twenty? Get rid of them.

frequent short breaks are more effective than occasional ones