If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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.
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.
Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
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