Effectiveness Quotes

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
― Dorothy Day

“If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”
― Jacques Ellul

“Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition”
― Henry Mintzberg

“Move back,” the man on the left ordered Valek. “Or I’ll skewer your friend.”

Valek considered the threat. “Do you plan to wound, maim or kill him?” he asked the guard.

“Threats should be specific in order to have the maximum impact.”

The man just stared at him.

“Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ’Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif’s stomach is his favorite body part so that’s a decent threat.”
― Maria V. Snyder , Ice Study

“I'm not in the redemption business”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International

“Do what you want that works.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“To hedge effectively, you have to reject the silo mentality and instead embrace the systems thinking mentality.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.”
― Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You can only be fulfilled and accomplished in life when you effectively maximize yourself”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Effectiveness is about asking the questions, what do we want our business to be great at? And what is the best way to achieve the results we desire?”
― Hendrith Smith

“A business can drift aimlessly if it is efficient but not effective. A business can lose money excessively if it is effective but not efficient.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To be effective without being efficient is to be on a path to ruin. To be efficient without being effective to to be very good at aimless wandering.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“One aspect of effectiveness is to simply not do things that don’t contribute to the goals of the business.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Profits are determined by productivity; by value added and by efficiencies and effectiveness.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To work for God effectively, you have to expand and stretch yourself”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“In the shadow of busyness, multitasking costs us our creativity, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and relationships.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“We need a cultural shift towards looking at multitasking as an act of foolishness.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Clutter is a state of mind when we miss simplicity and entangle ourselves in complexities.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Life is as simple as finding a lost TV remote.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Lavender's thoughts returned to the poetry, and Robert reading it, canting, rich-toned, about hands, kisses.
It shall be you.
Having no smelling salts nearby, Lavender moved matters to a more pragmatic realm. "I must warm the tea," she told Robert. For the pot had sat, untouched, for some time, and had surely cooled.
(In the kitchen, she loosened her collar, to alleviate her overheated state, to avoid becoming a sweaty brook.)”
― Jeanette Lynes, The Apothecary's Garden