effort optimization Quotes

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

The greater part performed achieves the less.