„Whether you know what you're doing or not, efficiency & style are your only improvement opportunities.“

16 September 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/24608868849
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

Übernommen aus Wikiquote. Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021.

David Allen

US-amerikanischer Autor, Berater und Unternehmer 1945

Ähnliche Zitate

„What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?“

Help us translate this quote

— Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

„You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.“

Help us translate this quote

— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996

„Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.“

Help us translate this quote

— Timothy Ferriss, buch The 4-Hour Workweek

The 4-Hour Workweek (2007)

„You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.“

Help us translate this quote

— David Fincher American film director 1962

About the film, The Social Network
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)

„What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.“

Help us translate this quote

— Nicholas Sparks, buch A Walk to Remember

Quelle: A Walk to Remember

„At twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star… by twenty-five you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional… by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful… by thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.“

Help us translate this quote

— Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

„Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.“

Help us translate this quote

— Jonathan Stroud, buch Der Ring des Salomo

Quelle: The Ring of Solomon

„You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.“

Help us translate this quote

— Katherine Anne Porter American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist 1890 - 1980

Writers at Work interview (1963)
Kontext: A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself — or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind... You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

„When you think of the visual style, when you think of the visual language of a film there tends to be a natural separation of the visual style and the narrative elements, but with the great, whether it is Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick or Hitchcock what you're seeing is inseparable, a vital relationship between the images and the story he's telling.“

Help us translate this quote

— Christopher Nolan British–American film director, screenwriter, and producer 1970

Chistopher Nolan and David Fincher featurette on Movieweb http://www.movieweb.com/movie/the-tree-of-life-2011/christopher-nolan-and-david-fincher-featurette

„If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.“

Help us translate this quote

— Donald Ervin Knuth American computer scientist 1938

Donald Knuth, quoted in: Arturo Gonzalez-Gutierrez (2007) Minimum-length Corridors: Complexity and Approximations. p. 99

„Here's what I can tell you about Don Rumsfeld. You're never going to get any credit. And you'll only know how well you're doing if he gives you more work. If that happens, you're doing fine.“

Help us translate this quote

— Dick Cheney American politician and businessman 1941

Quoted in Bob Woodward's, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, Simon & Schuster, 2006
2000s, 2006

„What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbours or memories of what you have read in books.“

Help us translate this quote

— Clive Staples Lewis, buch Christentum schlechthin

Book IV, Chapter 10, "Nice People or New Men"
Mere Christianity (1952)

„It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do.“

Help us translate this quote

— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965

Reverence for Life (1969)
Kontext: I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.