Quotes About Effectiveness

Information in itself is not powerful, power lies at the very core of being informed and making good use of it.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Drug-taking among young people was caused by a catastrophic philosophy which had been provoked by the prevailing system. Consequently society should be duty bound to produce an effective counterargument. One that was not based on smugness and more police officers.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Whether you're starting a business, managing a team, or running an entire company, trusting your instincts can be essential in bringing a vision or idea to life. I now understand that trusting yourself is only half the story. To be effective as a leader, you need a reservoir of trust to draw from. And once you use it all up, it can take years and years to replenish.

There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous." Richard M. Nixon

I consider logic to be like a roundhouse kick: limited in use and effectiveness, predictable, easy to defend against, and just generally tired from being overused.

It will take away a man's usefulness in his generation.

A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.

Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

With sentences, shorter is better than longer:

Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground—everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.

In game play it was always my philosophy that patience would win out. By that, I meant patience to follow our game plan. If we believed in it, we would wear the opposition down and would eventually get to them. If we broke away from our style, however, and played their style, we would be in trouble. And if we let our emotions, rather than our reason, command the game we would not function effectively.

we have more efficient, more focused, and more effective ways of achieving the ends we want.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of reaching the heart; one must constantly pay attention with one's mind. The spoken word tends to go to our heads, not our hearts.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

Keep on believing as long as you live and your effectiveness will increased. Never compare yourself or your achievements with others make your comparisons with yourself. Think, believe and visualize success.