Efficiency Quotes - Page 5

• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• 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 termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intuition, Mind, Twenties

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Mathematics, Unreasonable

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• Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Deficiency, Sufficiency

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• Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

  Paul Ormerod

  Doe, Market Efficiency, Financial

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

  William J. Clinton

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Numbers, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.54, e-artnow

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• You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.

  Mitch Joel

  Marketing, Age, Consumers

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• Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Way, Commodity

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

  Lois Capps

  Creativity, Use, Energy

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• You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Effectiveness, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

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• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

  Aldous Huxley

  Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

  Hannah Arendt

  Liars, Lying, Wish

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

  Charlton Heston

  People, Four, Committees

  Source: reason.com

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• Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Technology, Boost, Simplify

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• When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only secondarily do I worry about achieving it as efficiently as possible.

  Philip Kotler

  Effectiveness, Worry, Outcomes

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

  John W. Snow

  Play, Doubt, Facts

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Fuel Economy, Way

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• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Support, Trying

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  James Fallows

  Stars, Women's Beauty, Four

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• During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Determination, War, Skills

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• Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Irrelevant, Productivity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

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• Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

  Seth Godin

  Joy, Consistency, Humanity

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