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Quotes about Efficiency

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
— Grover Norquist
I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.
— Shonda Rhimes
I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But
— Oscar Wilde
Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
— Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
— Oscar Wilde
In the world of teams and teamwork I often find the belief that to work and communicate effectively, team members must be close comrades. In fact, this is a common misperception. Although team members don't need to know one another very well personally to perform as a team, they do need to know one another's abilities and potential contributions.
— Pat MacMillan
Crystal clear roles characterize high performance teams. Every team member is clear about his or her particular role as well as those of the other team members.
— Pat MacMillan
The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.
— Dale Carnegie
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
— Golda Meir
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
— William Faulkner
he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.
— William Faulkner
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
— William Faulkner