Quotes About Efficiency

1 Get it right from the beginning 2 Just listen … and read 3 Let's talk 4 Get two for one 5 Teach what is teachable 6 Get it right in the end

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.

Baumeister and John Tierney called Willpower. One piece of advice they offer is that one should be careful not to use up one's willpower on unnecessary tasks. You wouldn't tire out a muscle before a weight-lifting competition, would you?

believe that questions are rooted so deeply in our psyche because they're the most efficient and effective tool at our disposal for acquiring knowledge.

Much time and money is wasted by salespeople trying to sell the wrong people the wrong solutions to the wrong problems.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

Teachers make a staggering number of decisions—some historical research suggests as many as 800 per day (Jackson, 1968). And no one helps you make the decisions; you're essentially on your own. As you acquire knowledge and experience, however, you learn to make these decisions routinely and efficiently (Berliner, 1994, 2000).

The church is in desperate need of a leadership community whose function is not just structured to achieve with efficiency but is more deeply shaped by the comforts and calls of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are so many stimuli vying for your attention—sounds, places, people, smells, and your own thoughts rattling around in your head. You only have so much attentional energy and it will make you happier, more efficient, and healthier if you are able to focus it properly.

Readily identifies more efficient ways of doing business

The system needs to get right to the bottom line and remain very transparent in terms of its format, structure, and intent.

The Duke of Windsor is there, together with such other losers as General Howard-Vyse and General Gamelin.14 All look entirely inadequate to the cynicism, efficiency, brutality, and bloody-mindedness

Here are some indicators of successful management: Things get done well. Problems are not big surprises. Issues get resolved. Progress continues even when managers aren't there. People are engaged with their work and each other. Conflict is productive rather than territorial. New ideas emerge spontaneously from a variety of people.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

the typical calorie of food energy in your diet now requires about 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce.

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

Vite et mal, c'est ma devise!

We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.