Efficiency is intelligent laziness.


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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
DAVID DUNHAM
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
ANONYMOUS
Laziness is the mother of efficiency
MARIAN PROPP
Laziness is the first step towards efficiency.
PATRICK BENNETT
If there's an easier, more efficient way to do something, trust a lazy person to find it.
MARTY RUBIN
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel...
OSCAR WILDE
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. -Anon.
ANON
There is no room for laziness.
DANIELLE GOYETTE
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
‎"Knowledge and intelligence are mutually exclusive. They tend to correlate at times, but just bec...
MARCUS GONZALES
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability
SAM KEEN
To try and to fail, is not laziness
AFRICAN PROVERB
Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.
AMANDA CRAIG
Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
JOHN MILTON
Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.
ANON
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the b...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. -Anon.
ANON
People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon.
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Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
JAMES CASH PENNEY
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
GRANNI NAZZANO
Air conditioning reduces fuel efficiency 15 to 20 percent. Opening the windows is actually better fo...
ALEX FOWLER
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
UNKNOWN
Replace laziness with effort & excuses with determination,door of success is opened.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Laziness is at fault for the ignorance of people in today's society
DYLON NEVERS
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate ...
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all d...
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
H. OGILVIE
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
FEODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind an...
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly fro...
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you mi...
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
ANNE FRANK
Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over...
MITCH HEDBERG
I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all ...
MITCH HEDBERG
LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
AMBROSE BIERCE
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most int...
OSCAR WILDE
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
KIN HUBBARD
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
R.T. WOMBAT
It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty...
IAN MCKELLEN
It's laziness. Some go and collect a lot of quotes and put them together and never attempt to determ...
KURT EICHENWALD
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
MORTIMER CAPLAN
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD
If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be its father.
CARL STODDARD
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others
JULES RENARD
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER F. DRUCKER
Efficiency is the demand but awareness is the key.
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI
It is much better for environmental protection and efficiency of vehicles. It (unleaded fuel) is of ...
LUXON ZEMBE
The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman la...
ERIC AMBLER
A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
ZIG ZIGLAR
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want A...
WOODROW WILSON
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
FELIX FRANKFURTER
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best ad...
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
PETER F. DRUCKER
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and ...
GIFFORD PINCHOT
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
WALTER SCOTT
Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confus...
PETRONIUS ARBITER
Cheating is often more efficient.
JERI RYAN
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of...
WALTER CHRYSLER
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.
GIFFORD PINCHOT
There are some areas where we could be more aggressive for cost efficiency. We went into this year k...
ANTHONY DRAGONA
Greater fuel efficiency makes sense. It is technologically possible, the benefits are real and the c...
PAM SOLO
Most of the high-efficiency products on the market can reduce heat prices up to 50 percent if used p...
ANDY PETERSEN
Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.
STEVE ALLEN
There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and effi...
MARK SHUTTLEWORTH
Overall fuel efficiency has decreased in recent years.
DON MACKENZIE
Reducing staff seems to have become a central part of the executive board's strategy to improve effi...
ERICH KLEMM
What they've got to do is talk about fuel efficiency.
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I am pleased to announce the Vancouver expansion that occurs earlier than we had first anticipated. ...
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Overall there's a picture of a very aggressive movement to not only improve capacity and efficiency ...
GREG MARTIN
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GREG WILLIAMS
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