Efficient Quotes

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

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

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

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.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

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

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

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.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

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.

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

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

Cheating is often more efficient.

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

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.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

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

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

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

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

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.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.