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“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”

World Water Tears Efficient Water Power

Author:Wilson Mizner

“Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.”

Ifs Has Beens Government Asks Social Numbers Security Months Dad Creating My Dad Checks Mail Efficient Social Security Clockwork

Author:Michael Moore

“It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.”

Thinking Way Use Today Energy Can Do Generations Plant Yield Efficient Tricky Power Plants Biofuels

Author:Elon Musk

“An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.”

Men Hands Seems Government Jobs Dangerous Efficient Wrong Man

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.”

People Important Goal Millions Air Security Safe Travel Rely Aviation Efficient Providing Funny Travel Air Travel Security Measures

Author:Janet Napolitano

“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.”

May Causes Bears Fruit Efficient Loyal Efficient Work

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”

Materials Type Highest Advantage Efficient Efficiency Fuel Efficiency

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

“It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.”

Thinking Way Needs Helping Government Responsibility Creativity Creative Century Demand Foundation Dollars Reform Efficient 21st Century Transparent Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Barack Obama

“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.”

Changed Becoming Sacred Efficient

Author:Mehmet Oz

“My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.”

Ifs Way Problem Jobs Easy Unity Convinced Efficient Consensus

Author:Lucas Papademos

“We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.”

States Cutting Regions Efficient Greece Cutting Down

Author:George Papandreou

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

Want Government Efficient Personal Life

Author:Rick Perry

“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”

Writing Language Clear Pounds Efficient Accurate Good Writers

Book:Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry

Source: Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry

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

Ifs Mean Self Interest Ego Essentials Efficient Terrific Egotism Aquariums

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.”

Thinking Want Next Stuff Environment Car Fuel Efficient Emissions

Author:Christina Ricci

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”

Ifs War Alive Cold Warm Hospitals Sympathy Efficient Altruism Hospitality

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“There's nothing efficient about innovation.”

Innovation Efficient

Author:Simon Sinek

“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”

Ifs Literature Teacher Efficient Pupils

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

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

Kind Government Lawyer All Kinds Efficient Compensation

Author:John Stossel

“If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.”

People Ifs World Want Mean Able Decision Company Resources Including Efficient Criteria Business World Bribery Allocation

Author:James Surowiecki

“If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.”

Ifs Helping Moving Company Technology Growing Information Internet Fortune Spread Consumers Giants Thrive Expenses Efficient Information Technology Advent Fragmentation

Author:James Surowiecki

“If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.”

People Ifs Way Wells Use Planets Findings Resources Seven Billions Bags Friendly Efficient Plastic Finite Live Well Plastic Bags Environmentally Friendly

Author:David Suzuki

“An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.”

People Want Writing Care Individual Interesting Like Me Code Efficient Testing Developers

Author:Linus Torvalds

“When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.”

World Democracy Plans Solutions Agree Efficient

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.”

“Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”

Men Way Problem Given Space Animal Five Society Anger Miles Each Day Efficient Given Up

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.”

Ifs Thinking Government Able Party Principles Issues Fundamentals Conservative Tea Resolve Get Back Efficient Tea Party Fundamental Principles

Author:Allen West

“I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.”

Thinking Should Made Done Stories Decision Audience Television Sake Movie Efficient Making Decisions Get It Done Decisions Made

Author:Joss Whedon

“We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.”

Needs Energy Space Disease Approach Medical Exploration Efficient Space Exploration Preventing Undersea

Author:Fred Wilson

“Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.”

Looks Guy Games Sports Successful Fans Spring Stress Wounds Clock Being Successful Efficient Turning Points Famous Baseball Point Break

Author:Dave Winfield

“If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.”

Ifs Political Social Term Ought Arguing Thanks Efficient Short Term Social Network Matching Smartphones Tenants Efficient Markets Rent Control

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.”

I Can Faces Seeing Generations Information Involved Efficient Consistently Telephones Face To Face

Author:Sherry Turkle

“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.”

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

Said Light Social Disease Being The Best Efficient Electric Remedy Sunlight Publicity Policemen Electric Light

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”

Way Want Poor Teach Rich Efficient Rendering

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”

People Ifs Beautiful Sacrifice Car Models Deserve Freak Efficient Efficiency

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”

Men World Quality Active Practicals Efficient Originality Nihilism Recommendations

Book:The Idiot (Vintage Classics)

Source: The Idiot (Vintage Classics)

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”

Want Humans Wells Government Religious Human Beings Dangerous Organization Organized Efficient Organized Religion Technicians

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”

People Giving Mind Important Matter Moments Bigs Earth Funny Conversation Reflection Perfection Wide Range Height Phrases Efficient Animated Amusing Big Business Mind Free Pithy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.”

Girl Lost Servant Efficient Heartbroken Duplicate Civil Servants

Author:Tom Holt

“The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.”

Spirituality Force Silent Subtle Efficient

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

People Care Used Fall Grief Trouble Evolution Victory Lessons Cost Thousand Soldier Communism Chinese Flats Efficient Bugs Alliances Chins Adapted Hegemony Ammo

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.”

Energy Doubt Conviction Efficient

Book:Wicked

Source: Wicked

“All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”

Source: The Jungle

“Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.”

Cities Modern Healthy Built Notes London Aliens Pleasant Efficient Halfway Amusing Places To Live Milton Birmingham Keynes Britons

Book:Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

Thinking World Kind May Action Lying Father Christ Can Do Compassion Talent Judgment Faithful Be Kind Efficient Harsh Small Things Being Faithful Judgment Of Others Efficient Work

Author:Mother Teresa

“It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.”

Body Fit Lows Weight Fats Muscles Fitness Efficient Components Body Fat

Author:Deborah Bull

“‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.”

Source: On Liberty