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• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

  Aravind Adiga

  Political, India, Dollars

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician" by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

  Tom Peters

  Military, War, Mean

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• Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Important, Doe

  Seth Godin (2013). “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

  Michael Porter

  Fundamentals, Strategy, Distinction

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.

  Rona Ambrose

  Safety, Smoking, Tools

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• It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 27, 2013

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Too Much, Wonder, Reducing

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• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Responsibility, Paris

  "Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan". Frontlines Interview, www.usaid.gov. April/May, 2011.

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• As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

  Peter Drucker

  Moving, Steps, Step Up

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.262, Routledge

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Book, Broken, Be Who You Are

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Lying, Chiefs

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• Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

  Virginia Foxx

  Light, Accountability, Democracy

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• The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

  Hakim Bey

  Groups, Movement, Individual

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• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

  Richard Koch

  Thinking, Giants, Way

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

  D. A. Carson

  Lonely, Teaching, Study

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• You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

  William Hague

  Giving, Independence, Degrees

  "Conservatives press Cameron to call up Clarke and Davis" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2008.

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

  Martin Schulz

  People, Unions, Losing

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• No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness of their constitutional rights. No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, these rights.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Exercise, Rights, Should Have

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• Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Science, Thinking, Greed

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• In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

  Kathy Sierra

  Trying, Cases

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• The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Heart, Essence

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• True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

  Stephen Covey

  Eggs, Two, Golden

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.64, Mango Media Inc.

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• Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Mysterious, Influence

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