The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.
As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.
A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind m...
Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist emphasis on 'efficiency' - a word which as been elevated to almost holy status in the neoliberal lexicon, but ...
Everyone is so locked into the current way of doing things, they never see the larger picture or other, more responsible and efficient possibilities. A REAL economy is always wanting to limit consumption/manufacturing as much as possible by assuring ...
Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.
Gratitude takes less energy than anger.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent as much energy investing in experiences as we do investing in things?
His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity.
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
die daily. hourly, if you've got the energy.
Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good.
More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.
Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.
Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.
Regardless of what you've been through we all process energy differently.
