Sentences with phrase «much wasted motion»

I get over 100 emails a day and there is so much wasted motion involved in deleting them one by one.

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Not all movement (however frantic) is progress or even forward motion and too much trying can sap precious energy, waste critical and scarce resources, and take your eyes off the main chance.

Whitehead believed that the polemical activity of the intellectual world was largely waste motion, with much harmful simplification of ideas into targets.

You won't see much, if any wasted motion, whether he is dropping into a zone, playing the run or rushing the passer.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

And so, after wasting a bunch of time with motions to dismiss the case on the basis of this mistake, Mann's lawyers filed an amended complaint, Steyn's and the other defendants» lawyers got paid even more, and the case ended up exactly where it was before, except that now the defendants are whining even more about how much the procedural stuff is costing them.