Quotation Explorer - 'Effective'

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy. - Barack Obama
Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication. - Deborah A. Beasley
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. - Henry David Thoreau
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain
In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. - Jean Baker Miller
A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it. - Audrey Moralez
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito! - Wolfgang Reiber
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
If one is to be an effective leader, one must willingly accept difference.
A mind who is materialistic by nature can’t ever find own heart in the work, so s/he may appear effective only for the time being but could never truly be a productive person or a creative soul. - Anuj Somany
Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them. - Kimberly Giles
All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual. - Herman Wouk
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life. - Evita Ochel
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell
It takes time to earn trust and it takes time to learn to be open enough to work in at team in an effective way so that every contribution is "valuable" regardless of your personal opinion. - Auliq Ice
A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation. - Aldous Huxley
I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi
An effective way often to let the people do something corrective is to just request them not to do it then most of them are most likely to do the same thing only because a sage always knows who they in majority are actually. - Anuj Somany
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. - Margaret Cho
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato
Maxim 27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind. - Olli Jalonen
The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead. - Dannye Williamsen
One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance.Yes, money.Whether it be women, minority groups etc.Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax - Magnus Nwagu Amudi
Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc. - Uzoma Nnadi
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. - Ulysses S. Grant
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Winston S. Churchill
If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere. - Loretta Young
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. - Edward Teller
Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle
The speaking of writing is more effective than speaking. - Sanaullah sahil
Anger is a super weapon given by god...with a catch...the more you use it the less effective it becomes. - ketan r shah
We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business. - Kip Tindell
An effective leader is also an effective listener. - Artika Tyner
The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease. - Agona Apell
The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them. - Vironika Tugaleva
Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life. - Angelica Hopes
Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless. - Whitney Young
The key distinctive of a truly Christian education...is the effective practice of worldview integration, that is, an approach to biblical integration that leads to a Christian worldview. - Martha MacCullough
Be effective not just efficient. Do right things not just things right. - Prabakaran Thirumalai
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. - Stephen R. Covey
There are three ways YOU can GET OUT of abject poverty. The first is inheritance which is always volatile and very scarce. The second is Education which very sustainable. The third and the most EFFECTIVE way is DEATH (or to Die ). But I recommend YOU to Choose Education - Oppong Amankwaa
Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
1. Reading becomes knowledge.2. Applying knowledge becomes experience.Most people have done 1 but they forget 2. These people blow too much without effective result. - CycDemo
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. - T.K. Naliaka
Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation. - Debasish Mridha
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. - Thomas Gordon
To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective. - Richie Norton
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. - Sun-tzu
If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. - Gary W. Moon
...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning. - Richard DuFour
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Sir Winston Churchill
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us. - Stephen Covey
Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. - Evita Ochel
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. - Clarence Darrow
if we want individuals to take responsibility for their actions we must first establish a rational, effective and empowering means of separating individual responsibility from that of the collective. - Daniel Waterman
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter F. Drucker
The most effective weapon is love. - Debasish Mridha
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. - Maxwell Maltz
Anger is the most effective inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
Maxim 11: Everything is air-droppable at least once.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever. - Robert Farrar Capon
I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust. - Richie Norton
Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. - John Green
Effective meditation must lead the meditator to the heights of the infinite sky of superconsciousness and facilitate the plunge into the deepest ocean of subconsciousness, and emerge the wiser. This way our consciousness evolves. - Daaji
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain
Cohesion is the bane of effective independence. - Anthony Corlisatra
On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective. - Guy Debord
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one. - Wallace D. Wattles
Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
Believing is seeing" is much more effective for me than the old notion that seeing is believing. - Harmon Okinyo
Maxim 8: Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
There’s a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind - About Time
The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it. - Pawan Mishra
Effective communication requires active listening skills. - Farshad Asl
Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. - Dorothy Day
The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time. - Steve Maraboli
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. - A.W. Tozer
Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important. - Debasish Mridha
Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Annabelle R. Charbit
Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Self-leadership is the most effective way to train leaders. How do you do that? Empower them to make decisions, you as a leader back them up and allow them to follow through - Janna Cachola
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile. - Walter Bradford Cannon
It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. - Bob Proctor
Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence. - Chris Vonada
Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Maxim 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries - Howard Tayler
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. - Jawaharlal Nehru
A companion's words of persuasion are effective. - Homer
The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words. - Auliq Ice
Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels. - Sunday Adelaja
Effective Communication is a way to success - Jaspal Singh Malik
All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point. - Angie Morgan
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. - Elbert Hubbard
My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.Seems more logical than undergoing all kinds of hardships only to die eventually anyway (through bites/malnutrition/or terminally chapped lips) - Graham Parke
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. - Unknown
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence. - Israelmore Ayivor
Rather than trying to control Anger,try deferring it,looking for an alternative way of handling...i bet its more easy as well as more effective. - ketan r shah
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