Speed Efficiency Quotes

#1. In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.

Michael Bloomberg

#2. The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Helen Keller

#3. America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

Matt Groening

#4. Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Robert Fulghum

#5. It is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Stephen R. Covey

#6. The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

#7. Being apart from you is killing me. I feel
lost without you.

S.C. Stephens

#8. Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

Alison McGhee

#9. Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

Paul Simon

#10. When we went to automatic espresso machines, we solved a major problem in terms of speed of service and efficiency. At the same time, we overlooked the fact that we would remove much of the romance and theater that was in play.

Howard Schultz

#11. Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

Joe Biden

#12. The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed ... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

E.F. Schumacher

#13. You can't rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.

Robert Kroese

#14. All things seek for comfort and no one wants discomfort. A sound mind does not just improve speed; it increases efficiency and joy, and bond the body and the soul perfectly as well!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Well, I don't think of myself as a diva. I'm too dorky! Look at my shoes. (Points to the aforementioned sneakers.) I always look like this. I don't always want to be "working."

Tyra Banks

#16. No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#17. Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Marina Abramovic

#18. As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How old is Jonathan? Thirty? How long has it been since he lived with his parents?

Chino Moreno

#19. There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.

Steve Maraboli

#20. As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean and liked everything he did. One

Victor Hugo

#21. You can ask whatever you want, doesn't mean I'm going to answer.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#22. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Stephen Covey

#23. Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

Bill Vaughan

#24. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Barbara Tuchman