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Quotes About Efficacy

Where the smoke cleared, the crystal air, with some of the efficacy of faith, seemed to remove the mountains almost to the sea, bringing them so near that one might count the scarred glades on their wooded sides.
~ O. Henry
A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages the belief that individuals can act efficaciously as individuals, and enables them to do so.
~ Charles Murray
Punishment [is] applied like a rabbit's foot, with as little regard to its efficacy.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy.
~ Jane Austen
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
~ Jane Austen
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
~ Jane Austen
Admiro a quien descubrió la eficacia de la poesía para estimular el amor. —En mi opinión, la poesía ha sido siempre el alimento del amor —dijo Darcy.
~ Jane Austen
And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. Darcy only smiled;
~ Jane Austen
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! - I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love - said Darcy. - Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. - Elizabeth Bennet
~ Jane Austen
And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.
~ Jane Austen
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
~ Scott Berkun
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
~ Thomas Szasz
Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?
~ Donald Trump
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
~ Malcolm X
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
~ John Calvin
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
~ John Keats
The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.
~ Timothy Ferriss
To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.
~ Timothy Ferriss
After four weeks, we tallied the results. His average monthly fat loss had gone from roughly 5 lbs to 18.75 lbs, a 275% increase. He'd tripled his fat loss by spending less than two minutes consuming a protein shake each morning. Astonishing? Not really. I'd seen the pattern in the data across hundreds of people: simple works, complex fails.
~ Timothy Ferriss
It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.
~ Tom DeMarco
If there's one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are 15 operations, you know that none of them work.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments." "But
~ Oscar Wilde