Quotes About Effectiveness

Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

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

buckwheat honey reduced coughing as well as the best-selling over-the-counter cough suppressant, dextromethorphan

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

A method is only as good as its measurable results

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

The most important thing you can do to increase your effectiveness with middle schoolers is to deepen your connection to God.

This book is easy to understand and gets your attention. The real life examples are effective in delivering the message on the tremendous power of personal accountability. At the Callaway Energy Center, we trained our leaders on personal accountability and used this book as a guide. This resulted in notable improvements in our teamwork, engagement, accountability, and performance. I highly recommend it." —Fadi Diya, vice president, nuclear operations, Ameren Corporation

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment

Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.

It reminds me of a statement Kent Beck often makes about himself: "I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits." Refactoring helps me be much more effective at writing robust code.

What I have in mind is the ability to be effective, to make a difference in the world, and the right to be taken seriously, together as much as individually. It is power in that sense that many women feel they don't have – and that they want.

It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then there are surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?

true productivity has to be measured relative to the outcomes of the overall system, not just the software. Just producing a lot of lines of code or function points is irrelevant; the real question is, How much improvement in customer outcomes has the development team generated?

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

The most recent modern rendition of the Enchiridion is due to Sharon Lebelle in 1995, under the title The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.