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

Prayer Meditation Awareness Reasoning Efficient Introspection Meditation And Prayer

“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.”

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

Computer Machines Guitar Efficient

Author:Colin Greenwood

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

Achieve Genius Competition Corruption Efficient Businessman Scandal Monopoly

Author:Mario Puzo

“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.”

Love Wells Age Half Pages Efficient Good Day

Author:Charles Frazier

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

World States United United States Usa Efficient Postal Service

Author:Diane Watson

“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.”

Way Inspirational Wells Mean Done Jobs Smart Efficient Timely Resourceful

Author:Thomas Leonard

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

Way Dangerous Cost Climate Climate Change Accepted Efficient Pollution Carbon Lowest

Author:Wayne Swan

“A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.”

Writing Trying Persons Art Real Matter Hard Artist Seeing Art Is Real Life Versions Works Of Art Efficient Precise Compact Replicate

Author:George Saunders

“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.”

People Eye Responsibility Type Discipline Capacity Assuming Organized Destructive Rejects Efficient Delay Gratification Live In The Present

Author:M. Scott Peck

“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.”

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Author:George Stigler

“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.”

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

Humans May Facts Secret Brain Holes Efficient Human Brain

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.”

Use Energy Principles Focus Design Materials Resources Labor All Things Connections Stress Core Scales Thoughtful Fuel Efficient Fossils Fossil Fuel Ecological Loops Permaculture

Author:Bill Mollison

“Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.”

Important Universe Given Goal Tasks Regard Performing Efficient Efficiency Effectiveness Default

Author:Tim Ferriss

“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.”

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Author:Robin Chase

“The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.”

Can Do Car Pressure Checks Gas Efficient Simplest Tire

Author:Richard Hammond

“In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.”

“Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do not use such compilers because They're not efficient. (Presumably, this means that it is vital to get the wrong answers quickly.)”

Firsts Mean Helping Use Answers Computer Checks Sufficient Dimensions Efficient Execution Exceed Programmers Wrong Answers

Book:The Elements of Programming Style

Source: The Elements of Programming Style

“I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.”

Want Technology Boundaries Efficient

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.”

Mind Turns Energy Sleep Space Walks Practice Standards Yoga All Time Efficient Longevity Vitality Calmness High Standards Walks Of Life Restful Efficient Work

Book:Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement

Source: Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement

“The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.”

Might Politics Politician Intelligent Species Library Secure Cells Efficient Galaxy Scraping

Author:George R. R. Martin

“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.”

Environment Exercise Activity Essence Practicals Efficient Adaptation Practical Life

Author:Maria Montessori

“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.”

Ifs Self Law Efficient Sustainability Humankind

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.”

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Author:Andrew Dominik

“The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.”

Art Causes Existence Practice Study Capable Art Is Makers Efficient

Book:The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.”

Thinking Country Might Economy Rich China Contrary Efficient Rich Countries

Author:James Fallows

“Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”

“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.”

Humans Government Technology Products Chaos Efficient Ineptitude

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.”

Thinking Men He Man Efficient

Book:Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man

Source: Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man

“It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.”

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Book:Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

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

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.”

Knows Men Space Fire Walking Moon Method Bills Dollars Bottom Burning Destroying Efficient Star Gazing Space Shuttle Dollar Bills

Author:Dana Rohrabacher

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”

Men Perfect Clear Greatness Machines Imperfection Efficient Perfection And Imperfection Greatness Of Man Being Imperfect

Author:Ernst Fischer

“Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.”

Trying May Play Waiting Results Education Study Possibility University Sake Efficient

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.”

Needs Looks Government Program Efficient Inward Pointing Belts Saving Money Administrators Government Programs

Author:Michael Enzi

“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.”

States Use Government Jobs Environment Creation Taxes Structure Dollars Friendly Fewer Efficient State Government Job Creation Tax Dollars

Author:Ken Blackwell

“The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.”

Bits Issues Priorities Mess Fantastic Efficient Ankles When Things Go Wrong Nhs

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.”

States Use Energy Technology Office Program Priorities Addresses Grants Efficient Funding Emerging Renewable Energy

Author:Rosa DeLauro

“The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.”

“Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.”

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Author:Steve Daines

“I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Facts Care Efficient Reporters I Care

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.”

People Ifs Real Waiting Morning Waste Paper News Models Online Village Efficient Versus Mechanic Blacksmiths Model T

Author:Marc Andreessen

“There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.”

Thinking Teach Doubt Feet Television Skills Budgets No Doubt Efficient Strict Constraints Deadline

Author:Emilio Estevez

“I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.”

Poor Business Finance Efficient

Author:Larry Hite

“Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.”

States Energy United United States Source Pursuit Alternatives Fuel Efficient Vigorous Cleaners Petroleum

Author:Virgil Goode

“I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

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