Quotes About Effectiveness

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi.' I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.