Efficient Quotes

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Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness. — John Cleese
One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective… — Roger Delano Hinkins
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can… — Clement Greenberg
Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. — Tim Ferriss
There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting… — Wilson Greatbatch
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… — Richard M. Weaver
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit… — Theodore Roosevelt
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak… — Theodore Roosevelt
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is… — Luis Barragan
What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. — Steve Jobs
There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away,… — Frederick Lenz
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an… — Henry Adams
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so… — Edward Bach
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a… — P.D. James
Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new. — Orrin Woodward
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is… — Bill Gates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. — Bill Gates

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