Quotes About Efficiency

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

Every expansion of the personal division of labour brings advantages to all who take part in it.

One must rather ask how much could be produced if competition among producers were abolished.

If we assume that all men have the same capacity and application for work and if we disregard the disutility of labor, labor in such a world would not be an economic good. If

Omul este întotdeauna înclinat s?-È™i pun? norocul pe seama propriei sale eficienÈ›e È™i s?-l ia drept o binemeritat? recompens? a talentelor, aplicaÈ›iei È™i probit??ii sale. Dar întoarcerile norocului le pune întotdeauna pe seama altora È™i, mai ales, pe seama absurdit??ii instituÈ›iilor sociale È™i politice.

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

It takes a dozen bees to gather enough nectar to make a teaspoon of honey, each of them alighting on roughly 2,600 flowers and flying 850 miles back and forth. A worker bee weighs little more than a breath—around 100 milligrams—but she can carry half her body weight in nectar.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.

smooth is fast.

that a lithium ion battery stores 0.54 megajoules of energy per kilogram, while body fat stores 38 megajoules, and kerosene contains 43 megajoules

A durable, high-powered blender is well worth the investment. I make many of my smoothies, dressings, soups, and desserts with a blender. Since I use whole-food ingredients such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, it is important that the machine have enough power and speed to efficiently process these ingredients to the desired smooth consistency. Inexpensive models will not provide a smooth, creamy texture, and their motors tend to burn out after a month or two of daily use.

Zucchini 13 minutes

Oil gets absorbed efficiently and quickly and converted almost instantly into body fat. Even olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil. When fat calories are absorbed so rapidly in such a large bolus, they cannot all be utilized for energy, so they are rapidly stored as body fat, something Americans have in large supply. Excess body fat increases the likelihood of cancer. Vegetable

Intuitively we all know that nothing operates most efficiently at full throttle. Is it any wonder that a food system predicated on faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper would create an ignorant, duplicitous, harried, obese citizenry? A culture's people carry in their heads and physiques the manifestation of the food system's objectives.

Veneeni on kevyt ja nopea

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Consider that about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy are required to cultivate 1 calorie of starchy vegetable food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1.

One reason refined foods elevate insulin is the absence of fiber. As you saw earlier, fiber improves insulin efficiency, meaning that less is necessary to do the job.

Our schools and prisons are the only places in the world where time is more important than the job to be done.

After several decades of empirical study, Jaques concluded that just as humans differ in intelligence, we differ in our ability to handle time-dependent complexity. We all have a natural time horizon we are comfortable with: what Jaques called "time span of discretion," or the length of the longest task an individual can successfully undertake.

it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have.

He felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit of enterprise, and now he shaved in five minutes, where before he had taken twenty, and no longer confronted his fellows, at least one day in three, with a countenance ludicrously mottled by sticking-plaster.

A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.