Quotes About Effectiveness

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

I watched guys who were professional fighters hit each other 30 times, and it still didn't go anywhere. I thought 'that wasn't very effective' But I saw if you got someone in a choke, you can end a fight in seconds, and I pushed toward that.

I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.

If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing.

You don't ask if an aircraft is being flown by a man or a woman - if it flies, it means it's doing the job it is meant to. The same is with cinema, and all that matters is whether the film works or not.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

The brief sentence can be just as effective, since what matters is not complexity or decoration but rather intelligibility, grace, and the fact that the sentence should strike us as the perfect vehicle for expressing what it aims to express; the sentence should seem ideally suited to whatever story or novel or essay it happens to appear in.

Grace plus ministry equals influence. Influence is most effective when it is within the limits God has given us. Even if that influence looks lesser to others, it is really greater because it is the measure of influence we are supposed to have. Greatness is a direct result of our faithfulness to our divine assignments.

A leadership team cannot be effective if its understanding of change is erroneous, incomplete, misinformed or outdated.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises. —LIET-KYNES THE ARRAKIS WORKBOOK

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. But if I do have to draw such circles round myself, then it will be better for me to do it passively, in mere wonderment and gaping at the tremendous complex, taking home with me only the refreshment that this sight gives e contrario.

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we're not as resourceful, creative, or effective.

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Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

You're gonna find a common theme among my favorite beauty products: I don't like those little sheer things. If I'm putting makeup on, I want it to do the job quickly.

The only real way to measure progress, the only real way to see if activity has any real teeth is how that activity ties to the Key Results the company is after. Activity doesn't matter, it's all about results.