Efficient Quotes

505 quotes by 449 authors

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. — Steig Larsson
Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones. — Kevin Hearne
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, itâ€™s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you… — Dean Young
I like the way men cry. They're efficient. — Kaui Hart Hemmings
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down… — Peter Watts
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. — Oscar Wilde
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause… — Baruch Spinoza
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo… — Henry David Thoreau
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in… — Stephen Covey
To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off… — Warren Buffett
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible… — Ben Bernanke
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. — Fay Weldon
If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will… — Jimmy Carter
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think… — Jeremy Grantham
In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient. — Evan Williams
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell… — Eric Schmidt
With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is… — Jennifer Lee
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. — Jesse Schell
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted. — Luis von Ahn

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