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• I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Car, Fuel

  "Christina Ricci Interview SPEED RACER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 3, 2008.

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• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Success, Fitness

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing efficient about innovation.

  Simon Sinek

  Innovation

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• I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

  Gertrude Stein

  Teacher, Literature, Pupils

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

  John Stossel

  Government, Lawyer, Kind

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• If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, People, Decision

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• If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Technology, Giants

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• Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

  James Dyson

  Electric Motors, Quantum, Leap

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  Deborah Bull

  Fitness, Weight, Body

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Demand

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• There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, Reason Why, Fuel

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• It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Stress, Obnoxious

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• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Mean, Technology

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

  Curtis LeMay

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Fearless

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• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Golda Meir

  Military, Thank God, Thrive

  Vogue, July 1969.

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• The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

  Wilson Mizner

  Water, Tears, World

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  David Suzuki

  People, Friendly, Bags

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