Search results for:

Efficiency is not in doing the unusual well but in doing the usual unusually well.

It is better to write down something once than read it ten times.

It is difficult to drive straight on a twisted lane, says the Russian proverb. It is difficult for water to flow straight in a crooked river. It is less easy for energy to rise up a slouching spine.

One need not the foes of light vanquish. As the dawn slowly breaks, they silently vanish.

There is nothing so useless as doing effeciently that which should not be done at all.

Lions sleep 3 days after devouring a murdered antelope a runner has an added burst after eating vinegift canteloupe now the antelope can't elope (Isaiah: The lion shall lie down with the lamb).

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.