Efficiency Quotes - Page 2

• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement, Quality, Degrees

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• My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.

  Wade Guyton

  Father, Drawing, Different

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• If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, World, Dinosaurs

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• The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Lust, Vampire

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• Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

  Amish Tripathi

  Fairness, Concerned

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• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Moving

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

  Helmut Jahn

  Attitude, Fuel Efficiency, Execution

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• With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future

  Jennifer Granholm

  Commitment, Thinking, Water

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• Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

  Lewis Thompson Preston

  Justice, Would Be, Records

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• Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

  Thomas Friedman

  Two, World, Quests

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• Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Science, Car

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

  Peter Chernin

  Opportunity, America, Groups

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• Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

  Ric Ocasek

  Enemy, Secrecy, Knows

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• Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

  Richard E. Grant

  Criticism, Kind, Film

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• In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

  Gifford Pinchot

  Safety, World, Welfare

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Enough, Lean Manufacturing

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• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Government

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.156, Routledge

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• Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Default, Regard

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  William Wulf

  Names, Stupidity, Sin

  "A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, (pp. 791-797), August 1972.

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• There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

  Michael Dell

  Focus, World, Microprocessor

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Creativity, People, Poverty

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• Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Crush, Mean

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Race, United States

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

  Stars, Men, White

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