Quotes About Effectiveness

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

IVF is very commercial. The people doing it are among the best-paid in medicine: they charge a lot per treatment and it's not in their interest to make it more effective. Having people fail means that they come back again.

I'll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn't a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I'm like that as a manager.

The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have

Precise acts and feelings and decisions were infinitely more effective than the blundering idiocy I called my life. —Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

Rhodiola, various species, has been found effective in the treatment of breast cancer.

If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It'll be too little, too late, and too optimistic - in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.

What would happen if believers and churches today followed the great people of the Bible and in Christian history and began to pray powerfully and effectively?

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

there is a world of difference between being productive and being fruitful,

Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software-development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find.

if you're writing a memo or e-mail and begin a middle paragraph, "Most important …" you've written a bad memo or e-mail.

I use shea butter, olive oil, Shea Moisture - the coconut hibiscus bottle. A mix of that. If I want to do a slick bun, I'll use Eco Style Gel even though it has fragrance in it. Oooh, scary. I'll survive. I keep using it because it works.

Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts with my fastball, even if the slider is the pitch I want to get to.

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if you're going to use Snapchat, you're going to use it for a reason, not just for fun.