Efficient Quotes - Page 17

• Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

  Peter Porter

  Sex, Men, Hell

  Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail

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• In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Purpose, Cost, Care

  "Mrs. Clinton Unveils Her New Socialist Health Care Program". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 17, 2007.

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• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Communication, Technology, Voice

  "Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Investors: 'The Hacker Way'". www.wired.com. February 1, 2012.

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• The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Thinking, Average

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

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• Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Thinking, One Day

  Quoted in Warren Weaver's article Statistics Scientific American January 1952

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• Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Media, People, Germany

  Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

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• The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.

  John Elkington

  Inspiring, Hands, Comfort

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• Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!

  Caterina Fake

  Kids, Climbing, Accomplishment

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• As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.

  James Davison Hunter

  Military, Organization, Victory

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.64, Basic Books

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• He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

  Pat Haden

  Mistake, Responsibility, Reality

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• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

  M. Scott Peck

  Meaningful, Thinking, Praying

  M. Scott Peck (2011). “The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.56, Random House

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• An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

  Winston Churchill

  Successful, Political, Politics

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.583, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

  John Battelle

  Marketing, Way, Inexpensive

  John Battelle (2011). “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Disappointment, Hate

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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.

  William J. Clinton

  Sound, Form, Riders

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• Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

  Jonathan Haidt

  Europe, Generations, Lasts

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• The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ordinary, Gains

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• An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Liberty, Bureaucracy, Threat

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.109, Fulcrum Publishing

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• Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
  1. Think short term.
  2. Be greedy.
  3. Believe in the greater fool
  4. Run with the herd.
  5. Overgeneralize
  6. Be trendy
  7. Play with other people's money

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

  Shakira

  Children, People, Tools

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• Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

  Albert Wynn

  Running, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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• I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

  Shirley Conran

  Lying, Lazy, Secret

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

  Kerry Packer

  Leadership, Talking, Lovable

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