Quotes About Efficacy

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

La prima mossa è quasi sempre un trucco, è la seconda la più efficace... l'importante è colpire il bersaglio. 

The first railways were far more expensive than the existing canals and far less reliable. Only gradually and with time does the new invention bring down its own costs or raise its efficacy to the point where it can match the old.

If his judgment is to be an object of sacrifice — what sort of efficacy, control, freedom from conflict, or serenity of spirit will be possible to man?

His stance was denounced as un-Marxist—indeed, as Blanquist, after the Frenchman Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–81), who had dismissed the efficacy of popular movements in favor of revolution by a small group via a temporary dictatorship using force.

Odyssean self-control [...] is more effective than the strenuous exertion of willpower, which is easily overmatched in the moment by temptation.

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.

Regardless of the reason why the nap works, it appears to be of practical value. Obviously, people in controlled environments

They infallibly confer grace, not only on the predestined, but on " all who receive them rightly." 9 Their efficacy is ex opere operate, i. e. derived from the ob jective value of the rite itself, not from the merits of minister or subject. 10

Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true efficient cause, though, of course, dependent for its efficacy on the disposition of the recipient, as upon a condition, because " wet wood can not catch fire." 23

The expository head has a message (though not its own message), a message whose efficacy derives, in part, from the almost metaphysical presence of the head, and the equally metaphysical absence of the body.

Happiness experts point out that merely making and sticking to a decision is a source of happiness, because it gives you a feeling of control, of efficacy, of responsibility. At times of

Just do the job, move on, don't leave any tracks. The rest was flotsam and jetsam.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

Scope neglect and the identifiable victim effect encourage our intuitive innumeracy and lead to poor decision making. In contrast, most of us would endorse the goal of choosing behaviors—such as contributing money or investing our time—where we can do as much good as possible, rather than simply feeling like we made a difference.

TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED. JJ McH

Oppose Contrarianism: Take up meaningful polemics against those with whom one disagrees; show, in practice, the efficacy of one's programs; show an openness towards other positions without compromising one's own; oppose other's positions only after a dedicated investigation into them.

helplessness constitutes the essential insult of trauma, and that restitution requires the restoration of a sense of efficacy and power.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.

If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly different way.

Le mérite de l'Occident est d'avoir cherché avec véhémence une riposte sociale, humaine, assez efficace et valable, aux duretés multiples de l'industrialisation. Il a fabriqué un humanisme social.

Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren't working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.