Efficiency Quotes

"If the dance is right, there shouldn’t be a single superfluous movement."

- Fred Astaire

"Jiu jitsu, like nature, is all about the conservation of energy."

- Nic Gregoriades

"Strength is used in jujitsu. It can definitely help to be strong, but strength is used in an intelligent, rational manner as part of a strategy guided by efficient technique."

- Renzo Gracie & John Danaher

"…look he carries all of my weight. That’s another theory of jiu-jitsu. When I rest I should put him to work so I don’t get tired and he gets tired. He spends energy."

- Demian Maia

"I realise now that my jiu-jitsu is much simpler than when I was a purple belt. When I was a purple belt I tried the most amazing moves – I ran a marathon to get five miles away. Now everything is much clearer. You don’t waste time or strength, you just go straight to the point."

- Renzo Gracie

"Jiu jitsu, like nature, is all about the conservation of energy. In jiu jitsu ‘efficiency’ means using only as little strength and power as is required to accomplish your objectives. It means economy of motion – eliminating wasted movements and effort."

- Nic Gregoriades

""I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.""

- Bill Gates

"I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"Effort without talent is a depressing situation...but talent without effort is a tragedy."

- Mike Ditka

"Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect."

- Joe Brooks

"Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further."

- Lefty Kreh

"Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose."

- Richard Penn

"Just as in cooking there's no such thing as a little garlic, in fishing there's no such thing as a little drag."

- H.G. Tapply

"The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Promptness is the greatest of military virtues, evincing, as it does, zeal, energy, and discipline."

- General George Pickett

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

- Bruce Lee

"If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing."

- W. Edwards Deming

"Time, energy, and talent can be more important than budget."

- Steve Jobs

"You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea."

- Larry Page

"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."

- Jack Dorsey

"A woodsman was once asked, ‘What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?’ He answered, ‘I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.”"

- Anonymous woodsman, popularly attributed to Abraham Lincoln

"May each task of your day be smooth. Good morning!"

"A woodsman was once asked, ‘What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?’ He answered, ‘I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe."

- Anonymous

"Effort is between you and you. Nobody else."

- Unknown

"Your growth is limited only by how much you're willing to put in the effort."

- Unknown

"In the world of deadlines and meetings, Tuesday is your canvas. Paint it with efficiency, color it with innovation, and sign it with the success of a job well done."

"Don’t mistake my efficiency as meaning I want to do your job too."

- Unknown

"The perfect technique is one without much effort or conscious thought applied at the right time in the right direction, with the right amount of force – a spontaneous reaction to the opportunity presented by the opponent’s movement."

"In baseball, a double play is two outs for the price of one."

"There is no such thing as too much equipment."