Efficiency Quotes - Page 16

• While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Gdp, Perfect, Growth

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• There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis and water-use efficiency.

  Keith E. Idso

  Two, Water, Important

  "Co2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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• My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

  Charles Koch

  Father, People, Work Ethic

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

  Jean Vanier

  Responsibility, Exercise, People

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• Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Design, Needs, Generations

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

  Randal Marlin

  Ethical Questions, Political, Maintenance

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.30, Broadview Press

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• My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Effectiveness, Creating

  "Open Government Directive: Obama Moves On Transparency Promise" by Rachel Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

  Michael Pollan

  Technology, Animal, Diversity

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

  Kelly Miller

  Life, Conscience

  Kelly Miller (1924). “The Everlasting Stain”

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• An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

  Denis Hayes

  Light, Energy, Goes On

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.

  David X. Cohen

  Would Be, Tvs, Film

  Source: www.ign.com

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• At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Get Better, The End Of The Day, Quality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Thinking, Looks, Benefits

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Israel, Yugoslavia, Yards

  Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

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• Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!

  David Rolf

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The good news is that we've seen in recent years significant reductions in the cost of solar panels and wind production. We know how significant an impact we can have by moving towards energy efficiency and transforming our transportation system. So we know what has to be done. We have to develop the political will to do it, and, as president, this would be an issue of huge concern to me.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Political Will, Years

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• We, the older generations, simply cannot leave a world for you, the younger generations, in which climate change impacts become ever more threatening to your survival. Still more public attention and action are needed. Solutions like renewable energy or energy efficiency need to fully power our collective future!

  Christiana Figueres

  Impact, Survival, Energy

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• Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Creative, Synthesis, Planning

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Technology, Light, Years

  "Bloomberg Calls for National Energy Reforms" by Ray Rivera, query.nytimes.com. May 12, 2007.

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• Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

  Margaret Halsey

  Military, Civilization, United States

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Two, Feelings, Way

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• Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Purpose, Taught, Oppression

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• By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

  Paul A. Baran

  Essentials, Roles, Economics

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.25, NYU Press

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• It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

  Raymond Geuss

  Mean, Assessment, Europe

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Needs, Want

  "The 'Other' Football: A fond farewell to a 'Total' legend of the game, Johan Cruyff" by Justin Saj, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2016.

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