Quotes About Efficiency

Big books are old fashioned. Now we focus on quality rather than quantity.

Failure is good only when you have time to spare, but useless if you want to get everything done on time. In reality, no one has that time to spare!

Skipping the basic methods will cost you more at the top than following the full process of doing things while you are still at the bottom of the ladder

Try to work so hard for your benefit that you can compress a week into one day.

by the effective use of one's time.

One editorial summed up a general feeling: pupils were going to mourn the loss of this "natural" education that "made the world a wonderful place" and a return to schools bound by rules and "copy-book maxims." Still, parents were warned that they could be prosecuted if they did not remove their children from Victoria and Zula's school and return them to a school holding the required Certificate of Efficiency.

Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.

A spider web is a natural structure that works by ultimate tension, and an eggshell is a structure that works by ultimate compression. Both use the minimum and the appropriate material with maximum efficiency. Just as we learn to build suspension bridges with ropes and cables in imitation of spider webs, we can learn to build domes in imitation of eggshells, building in maximum tension or compression.

He nipped at her upper lip. "I bought the tux." She blinked. "You bought the tux." Bubbles of happiness burst into life inside her, rich and golden. "More cost-effective than renting one if you plan to use it a lot.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

Geeks Do It with More Ram.

ten-year, five-year and one-year goals, broken down all the way to daily task lists. He kept a catalogue of people he hoped to meet, all corporate movers and shakers or folks who could advance his career. Ruthlessly organized and efficient, he was a top corporate lawyer at a premier

Your time is precious if you make use of it at the appropriate way, moment and right place.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

He knew how to find time to study and to write, to earn his living and to wander idly through the streets he loved; whereas we, who staggered from laziness to frantic activity and back again, wasted our time trying to decide whether we were lazy or industrious

It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.

Stone Age men broke flint and found it cut things better than their own teeth did. We've created methods of transportation that work better than legs, and often do things we could only dream of, like flying. A hydraulic grip clamps on things better than a human hand. They're all tools and nobody objects to them, so why should anyone object to creating minds that are better at thinking than our own, and rulers that are better at their job than those humans who would aspire to rule?

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Our marvelous electronic devices can seduce us into believing we are hard at work, but we are merely sending and receiving insignificant messages, while the real work goes undone, day after day, week after week, year after year. Real thinking and grappling hurt like hell. That's why so many people avoid it like a root canal.