Quotes and Sayings About Effectiveness
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
