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• I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

  George Soros

  Expectations, Study, Theory

  George Soros' Remarks at the Festival of Economics, www.georgesoros.com. June 2, 2012.

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• It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

  Seth Godin

  Brave, Next, Frontiers

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• There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

  Robin Chase

  Book, Innovation, Collaboration

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• Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, Law, Sustainability

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• If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Hands, People, Designer

  "Designing for People".

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• The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

  Maria Montessori

  Exercise, Essence, Environment

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• The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

  H. L. Mencken

  Secret, Brain, May

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• The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

  Eugene Odum

  Men, Keys, Oasis

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• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Diane Watson

  Usa, United States, World

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• Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

  Charles Frazier

  Love, Good Day, Age

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• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

  Mario Puzo

  Competition, Genius, Scandal

  1969 The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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• The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

  Colin Greenwood

  Guitar, Machines, Computer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

  Kristi Noem

  Leadership, Cutting, Government

  FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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• Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Vampire, Teeth, Looks

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• Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

  Katie Hopkins

  People, Giving, Lazy

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Errors, Use, Pieces

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• I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Jobs, Smart

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• I try to be as efficient as possible.

  Richard Jefferson

  Trying

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• When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.

  Gregory Berns

  Running, Eye, Brain

  Gregory Berns (2010). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.7, Harvard Business Press

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• In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

  George Stigler

  Survivor, Topics, Size

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

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• As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

  Wayne Swan

  Climate, Cost, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

  Lars von Trier

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  "Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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• Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

  Bob Goff

  Trying, Extravagant

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