Efficiency Quotes - Page 23

• Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

  Felix Kramer

  Mph, Fuel Efficiency, Realizing

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Real, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  Robert Pozen

  Reading, Home, Reality

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• Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

  Steve Daines

  Running, Thinking, Eight

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• In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Moving, Reality

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• Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Science, Doe, Produce

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• I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy needs. We need smart, comprehensive, common-sense approaches that balance the need to increase domestic energy supplies with the need to maximize energy efficiency.

  Edward Kennedy

  Smart, Science, Thinking

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• At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

  Kathy Reichs

  Thinking, Play, Firsts

  "This much I know" by Interview by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Home

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Real

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

  Steve Daines

  Opportunity, Government, Citizens

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• Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  World, Reason, Made

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• But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.

  Laura Brown

  Airports, Safety, Important

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• I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loathing, Admiration, Deals

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

  Thom Yorke

  Guy, Creepy, Meat

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• Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.

  Dan Quayle

  Air, Traveler, Ifs

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• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

  Stephen Covey

  Adventure, Effectiveness, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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