Effectiveness Quotes - Page 2

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

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 there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.