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Letter "E" » efficiency
«The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency»
«The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Enemies,
Freedom
| Keywords:
anarchy, decencies, efficiency
«The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
deceiver, deceivers, deceiving, efficiency, falsehoods, ineradicable, in public, liar, possesses, prevail, primacy
«Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
actual, assassin, efficiency, historical, human existence, Human potential, in terms of, tasks, The Assassin, The Assassins
«Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
efficiency, Northern, southern, Washington, with efficiency
«We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
criminal, efficiency, jury, jury system, marred, twelve
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