Quotes About Efficiency

When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

as a utility served more customers, it would become more efficient, allowing it to cut the cost of power further and in turn attract even more customers.

In the most extreme expression of the determinist view, human beings become little more than "the sex organs of the machine world,

Intensive multitaskers are "suckers for irrelevancy," commented Clifford Nass, the Stanford professor who led the research.

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.

The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

quality and efficiency of patient care are only marginally better. Research on the effectiveness of health IT has yielded mixed results.

Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly

Why postpone a necessary element of running with a deviation like heel striking when we can land directly into our next point of action without delay?

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

I sipped the coffee. It was delicious, perfectly prepared, as I imagine anything prepared by Annie Miclasz would be. One of those formidable women who felt they had to hide their efficiency behind a soft, caring front; who hid for so long that the front became real; one of the women who kept the world turning; one of the women it paid to never, ever cross.

Useful men stay alive.

Sometimes I think I know you, know who you are deep down, better than you know yourself. You think efficiency is the key to your personality, but it's not. You're a sensualist, a hedonist of the first order. Look at the way you cradle that cup, the way you tilt your face to the sun like a flower." "It's efficient. Absorbing heat means my body doesn't have to create its own." "But it's also delicious.

Efficient punch of button with terrifying red nail followed by professional smile at us.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

The key to scheduling your time is to focus on objectives, not on activities.

An interesting argument is that actually 'the best service is no service 'because if you get things right in the first place, customers do not want your service.

Nature finds the same solution to many different problems, like how to drain water from the land into the oceans, and how to get blood from our hearts to our fingertips and back again. And the templates that nature uses are fractals. Clouds look the same at all scales. It is impossible to determine the size of a cloud from a photograph of it.