Quotes About Effectiveness

The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.

good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

happy people are more effective in finding alternative solutions and, as a result, are tolerant of minor difficulties.

When things work, we are informed, comfortable, and effective. When things break, we may no longer be able to function. This dependence upon technology is very old, but every decade, the impact covers more and more activities.

Irving was the kind of guy who worked perhaps an hour a day and accomplished more in that hour than most managers did in twelve hours. I learned something from that: it's not how many hours you put in, it's what you get done while you're working.

For clarity and brevity's sake, you'll have to choose the one most significant way your client's lives will improve, and trust that choosing one will be remembered while listing many would be forgotten.

Don't Get Cute or Clever Cute and clever language is almost always the enemy of clarity. Clarity sells, while cute and clever confuse.

Instead, we hear statements like "Make migraines a memory" or "Fuel efficiency for the future" or "Rain ought to stay on the outside of your house!" None of those cute and clever statements will sell anything.

Calls to action like "Learn more," "Find out about us," "Curious?" or "Our Process" are weak and confusing.

Why is spending on equipment an investment and spending on people a cost? I've always thought that personnel expenses should be considered investments as well, not costs," Geary said. "Calling them costs creates the image that it is just money being thrown away because we have no choice. But that money is an investment in the people who make all of the difference in effectiveness and efficiency and everything else.

The Mirror Exercise You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. BRIAN TRACY Leading authority on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness

For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major character's self-concept.

If Satan can use our everyday experiences, both big and small, to cripple our true identity, then he renders God's people totally ineffective for the kingdom of Christ.

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

Unfortunately, a lot of liberals seem to choose what policies to support based on whether they make them feel nice or mean, instead of whether they work.

They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing an effective job communicating that.

It's possible to be busy but not effective. Everyone's often busy, but few are effective. The effective are, the successful.

It's nothing to be busy and everything to be productive.