Quotes About Effectiveness

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Influence at work requires that you know what you are doing, have reasonable plans, are competent at the task at hand.

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.

He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can't rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively. We hadn't dwelt on the accident. There had been an element of uncertainty at first, but as soon as we had started to act positively everything had come together.

I've grown to think that keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective.

Later, one of the world's leading medical journals, the Lancet, conducted a detailed study of the fourteen major antidepressants that are given to teenagers. The evidence—from the unfiltered, real results—showed that they simply didn't work, with a single exception, where the effect was very small.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

there is a significant body of research that shows that one hour students spend devising questions about what they have been learning with correct solutions is more effective than one hour spent completing practice tests

Slowing down is countercultural for many, and varying the pace to coordinate with others may seem a bit inefficient. This is a time to think about survival anxiety and experiment by testing learning anxiety. Is it possible to find a shared work pace that allows for the group to accomplish more? Is it worth it to take a time-out on a project to reflect on what worked and what did not? What may seem to be less efficient may turn out to be more effective.

A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

It is worth asking if advertisements are ever an effective counter against negative publicity. International experience shows that it depends on the issue.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.