Quotes About Efficacy

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Truth is what works.

If nothing is so useless as an "ivory tower" academic theory that goes unused, nothing is so very practical as the theory that works. At

Definite atonement refers not only to the intended target of the atonement—namely, the elect—but also to its efficacy: the atonement achieves its purpose, full and final salvation for the elect.

Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

He extols the efficacy of the sign of the cross in chasing him, and dissipating his illusions, and lays down rules for the discernment of spirits, the first of which is, that the devn leaves on the soul impressions of fear, sadness, confusion, and disturbance.

If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful.

We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Sólo una oposición legal verdaderamente actuante y eficaz puede hacer inútil e injustificada la dañina oposición armada, con su capacidad de extorsión y de terrorismo.

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.