Inefficient Quotes
94 quotes by 87 authors
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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal…
— Matt Taibbi
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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
— Brenda Ueland
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At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
— Aldo Leopold
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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical…
— Virginia Woolf
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GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the…
— Judith Martin
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He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be…
— Noam Chomsky
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
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What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have…
— Haruki Murakami
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But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind…
— Benjamin Hoff
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To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
— Haruki Murakami
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances,…
— Mitch Albom
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If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other…
— Margaret Heffernan
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My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.
— Tony Campolo
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All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
— Dieter Rams
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Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to…
— George Soros
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I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for…
— Richard Greenberg
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