“It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“One of the best places for efficiency is being efficient with things so that you can be effective with people.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“You are everywhere commanded to be tender and sympathetic, diligent and useful.”*” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Generosity is at the heart of true productivity in all areas of life.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Researchers have found that whenever most systems —such as airports, freeways, and other such things —exceed about 90 percent capacity, efficiency drops massively. Not… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“No man has a right to be idle. . . . [W]here is it that in such a world as this, health, and leisure,… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“If we use deadlines and the efficiency paradigm for managing ambiguity, we often kill productivity rather than encourage it.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Competence is doing what you need to do. Excellence is knowing what you’re supposed to do, getting it on autopilot, and going beyond.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Am I desiring and seeking the temporal and eternal good of my neighbor with the same zeal, ingenuity and perseverance that I seek my… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“We are most productive not when we seek to tightly control ourselves but when we seek to unleash ourselves. Productivity comes from engagement, not… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“Efficiency doesn’t matter if you are doing the wrong things in the first place.” — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
“While efficiency is important, it is secondary. More important than efficiency is effectiveness — getting the right things done. Efficiency doesn’t matter if you… — Matt Perman Copy Share Image
![“No man has a right to be idle. . . . [W]here is it that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? — William Wilberforce, A Practical View of Christianity” quote by Matt Perman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d08/matt-perman-31729_christianity_no-man-has-a-right-to-be-idle-w-here-is_1533309.jpg)
