Quotes About Ineffectiveness

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

In many organizations, poorly defined team interactions and responsibilities are a source of friction and ineffectiveness. A team may have been told it is autonomous and self-organizing, but team members find they have to interact with many other teams in order to complete their work; and this feels frustrating. Another team may have responsibility for providing an API or service, but they don't really have the experience to do this effectively.

He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.

Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness… or ineffectiveness.

No entanto, quando se prende um fornecedor, cria-se uma situação de escassez que, inevitavelmente, impulsiona os preços para cima, o que atrai ainda mais fornecedores para o mercado. A guerra contra drogas movida pelos Estados Unidos tem sido relativamente ineficaz exatamente por concentrar-se nos vendedores, não nos compradores.

We Philosophers. Eager to help, trained to be ineffectual.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

The House of Peers, throughout the war,Did nothing in particular,And did it very well.

Una operación militar implica engaño. Aunque seas competente, aparenta ser incompetente. Aunque seas efectivo, muéstrate ineficaz.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Ä°nsan etraf?na rahats?zl?k veriyorsa hiçbir iÅŸe yaram?yor demektir.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Not everybody. Most people just drift through their lives. And even the people who want to help just tell other people what to do. None of it does any good! People talk to hear themselves talk, that's all.

In fact you have been as if your arms were tied, without knowing what to do. It appears that you are no better than a wooden image." —The Emperor telling Lin Zexu why he was firing him

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

Whose repeated remarks are a witless, thrustless dribble, whose impoverished sentences die like motherless chicks, cheaply fading.

There's nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he's acting. No amount of reason, no amount of criticism, no amount of anything is going to work to change Trump's behavior. Putin is exactly the same way.

Expansion in the mission of the federal government has created a belief in its effective power. Its ineffectiveness is therefore seen not as a systemic failure but as the result of a deliberate failure designed to benefit the powerful and harm the many.

Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.