Effectiveness quotes
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
-- Ade Edmondson -
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
-- Allan Bloom -
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
-- Andre Maurois -
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An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the amount of time you spend working out. This is why a series of 40-yard sprints at full speed benefits you more than half an hour of jogging. It's also the reason why lifting a weight heavy enough to make your heart pound and your muscles burn counts more than spending hours at the gym always in your comfort zone, never truly challenging your body. When a work-out becomes an unvarying, monotonous routine, it loses its effectiveness.
-- Arthur De Vany -
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
-- Barack Obama -
Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
-- Barbara Deming -
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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.
-- Ben Yagoda -
A place for everything, everything in its place.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
-- Bill Courtney -
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Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.
-- Bill Parcells -
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
-- Billy Corgan -
In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
-- Blaine Hogan -
If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.
-- Bob Ross -
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One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
-- Brian Tracy -
Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.
-- Bruce Lee -
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
-- Claud Cockburn -
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The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
-- D. A. Carson -
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
-- David Brooks -
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
-- Denise Levertov -
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Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
-- Don Tapscott -
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
-- Dorothy Day -
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
-- Epictetus -
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth
-- Eric Hoffer -
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.
-- Ernst T. Krebs -
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It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
-- Evan Davis -
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.
-- Frank Gaffney -
As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.
-- George Arthur Crump -
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My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.
-- George Nethercutt -
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
-- George Orwell -
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
-- George Orwell -
The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.
-- Gian Fulgoni -
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The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.
-- Gifford Pinchot -
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
-- Grace Coolidge -
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.
-- Hakim Bey -
Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
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The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
-- Harry Wong -
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
-- Harvey Pekar -
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition
-- Henry Mintzberg -
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
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Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.
-- Israel Gelfand -
Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.
-- Jennifer James -
You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account
-- Jerry Goldsmith -
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
-- John Brodie -
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... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.
-- John E. Sarno -
Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
-- John Major -
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
-- John O. Brennan -
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson -
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Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.
-- Julius Nyerere -
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
-- Katherine Harris -
In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
-- Kathy Sierra -
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.
-- Lee Smolin -
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Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
-- Leo Steinberg -
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.
-- M. Carey Thomas -
Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness
-- Mandisa -
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Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.
-- Marcia Angell -
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
-- Maria Goeppert-Mayer -
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
-- Marvin Bower -
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Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.
-- Michael Hyatt -
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
-- Michael Porter -
One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
-- Michael Shermer -
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
-- Milton Friedman -
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The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
-- Morton Blackwell -
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
-- Norman Cousins -
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
-- Omar N. Bradley -
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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
-- Paul Virilio -
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
-- Peter Drucker -
The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.
-- R. A. Torrey -
The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
-- R. Kent Hughes -
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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
-- Ralph Marston -
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.
-- Richard Hamming -
It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.
-- Richard Koch -
You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.
-- Richard N. Haass -
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Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.
-- Richard Tyler -
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
-- Rick Warren -
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.
-- Robert E. Ornstein -
In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.
-- Robert Koch -
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.
-- Robert Watson-Watt -
We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
-- Sandy Carter -
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
-- Stephen Covey -
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
-- Stephen Covey -
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
-- Stephen Covey -
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.
-- Stephen Covey -
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
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Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it
-- Tim Brown -
The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.
-- Tim Field -
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of physical storage assets. Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness. The vast bulk of content stored "in the cloud" will reside on large SATA interface HDDs with some on magnetic (mostly LTO) tape (particularly for "archives.")
-- Tom Coughlin -
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.
-- Vilfredo Pareto -
