Efficiency Quotes

398 quotes by 337 authors

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… — Alberto Manguel
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that… — Alberto Manguel
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked… — Patricia C. Wrede
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty… — Tom Robbins
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) — Tom Robbins
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. — Robert Fulghum
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… — Thomas Friedman
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and… — Primo Levi
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen Covey
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. — Dorothy Day
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is… — Isaac Asimov
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very… — Augusten Burroughs
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. — Stephen Covey
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. — Stephen Covey
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. — David Mitchell
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I… — Isaac Asimov

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