Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the… — Peter W. Huber Copy Share Image
“In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“With enough infalling matter, a spinning black hole can convert mass to energy with higher efficiency than even nuclear fusion. The most… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
In many complex systems, efficiency, redundancy, and resiliency pull in different directions: More efficient systems, which are cheaper, eliminate redundancies, which provide… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget.… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Good time management is not about buying a great calendar or planner. It is not about learning tricks to move faster, or… — Julie Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
“To reject solutionism is to transcend the narrow-minded rationalistic mindset that recasts every instance of an efficiency deficit [...] as an obstacle… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There are many signs of the value created by all the exchange that takes place in a city. We see it in… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits. Corporate folk get distracted by efficiencies and miss effectiveness. But ballers? Ballers know the… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The proclivity and the penchant of a mans persistence for doing work par excellence is a great way to improve his prospect,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Everyone shares the same 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. But why is it that not a lot of… — Myron Sta Ana Copy Share Image
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. Thesequalities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national… — Edward Morgan Forster Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
“Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“By being organized, you will be more efficient. By being more efficient, you will have more time in your day. By having… — Dan Charnas Copy Share Image
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“The truth is, you might lose the actual purpose of whatever you do if you try too hard to make it right.… — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
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