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• Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

  Claud Cockburn

  Cash, Underestimate, Bribe

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Layers, Social, Increase

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Communication works for those who work at it.

  John Powell

  Work, Communication, Media

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Anger, Flying, Hammers

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• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Death, Destroying, Function

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

  Jay Inslee

  Creativity, Light, Flames

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  Ade Edmondson

  People, Doubt, Toilets

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• The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Memories, Numbers, Wish

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• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Advice, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

  Katherine Harris

  Effort, Attention, Pay

  "Katherine Harris Discusses Her Senate Run". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2005.

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• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Powerful, Responsibility

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• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

  Jim Rohn

  Ordinary, Personal Growth, Wells

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Priorities, Principles

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• The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Exercise, Fighting

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• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, www.stroustrup.com.

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• 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.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Struggle, Useless, May

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 28, 2014

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• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Honesty, Freedom

  "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

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• I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.

  Joanne Woodward

  Healing, Long, Experience

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• The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Buddhist, Cutting, Thinking

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