Efficient Quotes - Page 27

• In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, Gone, World

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

  Martin Van Buren

  People, Sober

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• But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

  Bruce Nauman

  Mean, Feelings, Tasks

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• I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

  Jason Statham

  Average, Guy, Used

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Night, New Day, Popcorn

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• Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.

  Jon Porter

  People, Effort, United States

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• Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

  James Q. Wilson

  Powerful, Exercise, Agency

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• The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

  Millard Fillmore

  Strong, Law, Protection

  Millard Fillmore (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Powerful, Communication, Music Is

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• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

  Seth Lloyd

  Sex, Moving, Dna

  "Move Aside, Sex". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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• By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

  Donald Knuth

  Reality, Understanding, Use

  Donald E. Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms”, p.12, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

  Jan Tschichold

  Messages, Aim, Delivery

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• I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

  Eva Longoria

  People, Fit, Knows

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Finals, Four

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.114

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• The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.

  Steve Crocker

  People, Important, Quality

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• Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Believe, Order, Mexico

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Slavery, Ratios

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Country, Long, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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• A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Stride, Runners, Not Perfect

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• The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Thinking, Poetry

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• The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Inspirational, Order, Mind

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• Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

  Al Ries

  Way, Branding, Sells

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Design, Heaven

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