When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann on… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
“Our ability to extinguish new ideas is critical to productivity and to our capacity to scale existing projects. In a team setting,… — Belsky, Scott Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other… — Robert M. Olsen Copy Share Image
When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
“When your race on earth is finally over and your time has completely disappeared, what will continue to live on in the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way,… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“When you adopt a productivity mindset, however, deliberate practice-inducing tasks are often sidestepped, as the ambiguous path toward their completion, when combined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“I’ll remedy the deficiency. I’ll be Satan, I’ll be Death. Look into my bony skull sockets and see if you can read… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“to have a VERY BIG waste paper basket to take care of ALL invitations such as yours—productivity in my experience consists of… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“It’s important to be aware of how multitasking can stimulate us into mindlessness, giving the illusion of productivity while stealing our focus… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“Constant noise, interruption and drivenness to be more productive cut us off from or at least interrupt the direct experience of God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“favored moving toward open-source software like Linux, while Musk championed Microsoft’s data-center software as being more likely to keep productivity high. This… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying… — Sandy Carter Copy Share Image
“What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed… — Dee Dee Artner Copy Share Image
Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food. Large animals have inherently low efficiency of converting feed to muscle, and only modern broilers… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I love getting things done. That's why I spend several hours a day reading productivity articles. And when the day is done,… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
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