To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right… — Thomas Leonard Copy Share Image
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup Copy Share Image
What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
America tolerates a heavy toll from the flu on health and productivity. But if Covid becomes a twin risk, the heath-care system… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“To become genuinely productive, we must take control of our attention; we must build mental models that put us firmly in charge.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I enter every fight with the same exact mindset: All my focus is on my effort and output. — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image
The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity… — Jenna Wortham 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
“Products are only gotten from a time well converted and that financial wealth is a product of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“They say that humans can read each other in a hundred subtle ways, that we can detect messages in the subtlest movements… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
“Dwelling in the shit of life wasn’t productive. Either you checked out or you checked in. This life isn't for the weak,” — Nina Levine Copy Share Image
“...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
