Efficient Quotes - Page 17

• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Future, Ideas, Pleasant

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Government, Long

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• Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

  John Cleese

  Decision, Doubt, Efficiency

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• One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Jobs, Work, Smart

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• Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.

  Clement Greenberg

  Sin, Enough, Accepted

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.31, Beacon Press

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

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Default

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

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• There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Energy, Would Be, Needs

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• With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Creativity, Mean

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

  David Hoffman

  Strong, Real, Mean

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• Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Summer, New York, Mistake

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Patriotic, Training

  Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903

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• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

  Luis Barragan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

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• What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Internet, Stolen

  "Steve Jobs: Rolling Stone's 2003 Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. October 06, 2011.

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• There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Loss, Enlightened

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• A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.

  Henry Adams

  Children, Government, Years

  Henry Adams (2011). “History of the United States of America -”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

  Edward Bach

  Art, Healing, Years

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Eye, Technology

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• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Voting, Slavery

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.326, Faber & Faber

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• Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Something New, Status Quo

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• The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Get Better, Efficiency, Wrong Things

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• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  Patrick Collison

  Intelligent, Ideas, Interesting

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• To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, People, Dollars

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• Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

  Louise Fresco

  Becoming Better, Clean, Method

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