Efficient Quotes - Page 19

• Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Brain, Important

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever notice how your senses are heightened when you are in challenging situations? You're experiencing an adrenaline rush that gives you extra energy.
  If you see every day as a challenge, you'd be surprised how efficient you can become, and how much can be accomplished.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Taken, Moving

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• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Government

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.156, Routledge

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• Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Weapons, Formidable

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• Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Pathways, Immigration, Want

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• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wise, Grieving, Men

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

  Bernard Baruch

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Psychics

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

  Arthur Miller

  Technology, Personality, Machines

  Arthur Miller, Matthew Charles Roudané (1987). “Conversations with Arthur Miller”, p.145, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

  Tammy Bruce

  Liberty, Speech, Way

  Tammy Bruce (2001). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, Prima Lifestyles

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• One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Home, Order

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• 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 fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Fall, Hard Work, Science

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• If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Men, Kind

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• I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.

  Tessa Dare

  May, Joining, Blanket

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• When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

  Steig Larsson

  Grieving, People, Turns

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• Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.

  Kevin Hearne

  Dark, July, Creative

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.162, Del Rey

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• Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

  Dean Young

  Oddities, Lobster, Looks

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Men, Way, Cry

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2008). “The Descendants”, p.110, Random House

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• 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 a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.

  Peter Watts

  Circles, Axes, Perfect

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.193, Head of Zeus

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• 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

  Broken Heart, Wise, Lost Love

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• 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 of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.108, Commodius Vicus

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• 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 of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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