Effectiveness Quotes - Page 12

• Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

  Edward de Bono

  Tools, Purpose, Values

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• Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Wife, Battle

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.38, Pelican Publishing

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• A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according to high ethical standards. It must be self-policing. Without such a code, a professional soldier or a group soon loses identity and effectiveness. Once we know our job, have a genuine code of ethics, and maintain unquestioned personal integrity, we have met the first and most demanding challenge of leadership.

  Silas L. Copeland

  Jobs, Integrity, Army

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• 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

  Powerful, Lying, Intuition

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• The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Important, Prosperity

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• Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Challenges, Atheism

  George Orwell (1987). “Animal farm: a fairy story”, Harvill Secker

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• When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Creativity, Two, Innovation

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• Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Levels, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Courageous Leadership Workbook: The EQUIP Leadership Series”, p.67, Thomas Nelson

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• Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Allies, Ethics

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.266, Penguin

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• You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Responsibility, Fighting, Problem

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

  Ken Robinson

  Educational, Essentials, Elements

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• I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?

  Tani Cantil-Sakauye

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.

  John Haynes Holmes

  War, Reality, Men

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• Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.

  M. Carey Thomas

  College, Men, Intellectual

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• The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Way, Determined, Workers

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Loss, Musician, Savages

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.121, Penguin

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• Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Reality, Law, Simplicity

  "Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.

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• My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Creating, Democracy

  "Open Government Directive: Obama Moves On Transparency Promise" by Rachel Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• ... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Powerful, Mind

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• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  Ben Yagoda

  Children, Order, Parent

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• And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

  Sun Tzu

  Support, Regulation, Structure

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• The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

  Norman Cousins

  War, Possibility, Instruments

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Prayer, Saint

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