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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. -- Claud Cockburn
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. -- Andre Maurois
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
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
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
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
Effectiveness is best measured by results over time. -- Richard Tyler
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose. -- Edward de Bono
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style. -- George Bernard Shaw
Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. -- John C. Maxwell
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. -- D. A. Carson
A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward. -- Caterina Fake
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. -- Tim Ferriss
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. -- Michael Porter
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. -- Stephen Covey
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. -- John C. Maxwell
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness. -- Billy Corgan
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. -- Stephen Covey
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -- Peter Drucker
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness. -- William Arthur Ward
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. -- Elaine MacDonald
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness. -- Omar N. Bradley
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond. -- Norman Finkelstein
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. -- Stephen Covey
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
I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission. -- Alvin Adams
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. -- Marvin Bower
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
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. -- Rick Warren
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. -- Peter Drucker
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. -- Paul Rand
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. -- Robin Sharma
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent. -- Ralph Marston
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. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. -- Adam Braun
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. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary. -- R. A. Torrey
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. -- Adrian Edmondson
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance. -- Heather Brooke
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. -- Don Tapscott
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
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. -- Nathan Myhrvold
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? -- Bill Gates
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
On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. -- John McCain
Style is effectiveness of assertion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness. -- Curious George Brigade
Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness. -- John C. Maxwell
You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. -- Stephen Covey
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness. -- Douglas B. Reeves
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance. -- Michael Porter
One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements. -- Michael Shermer
I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness. -- Claudia Black
Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness. -- Ayn Rand
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership. -- John C. Maxwell
Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. -- John Major
Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions. -- George Nethercutt
If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness. -- Bob Ross
One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule. -- Brian Tracy
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. -- Tim Ferriss
Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage. -- Michael Hyatt
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed. -- Peter Drucker
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art. -- Leo Steinberg
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support. -- Sun Tzu
The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness -- Mandisa
The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides. -- Bill Courtney
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. -- Ben Bradlee
The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others. -- John C. Maxwell
The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes. -- Andy Stanley
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war. -- Norman Cousins
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity. -- Douglas B. Reeves
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable. -- David Eagleman
The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him. -- R. Kent Hughes
Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own. -- Max Anders
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. -- Roger Mudd
Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. -- Robert E. Davis
The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective. -- Tim Stevens
Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it -- Tim Brown
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. -- David Brooks
The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads. -- Gian Fulgoni
True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose). -- Stephen Covey
The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. -- Edward S. Herman
If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness. -- Archibald Marwizi
You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority. -- Richard N. Haass
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides. -- Morton Blackwell
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Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive. -- Archibald Marwizi
Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited. -- Michael Tierra
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. -- Harry Wong
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases. -- Grace Coolidge
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
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. -- Freeman Dyson
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness. -- Janet Yellen
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows. -- Martin Luther
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. -- Robert Payne
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. -- Stephen Covey
The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose. -- Beth Moore
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance. -- Stephen Covey
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. -- Robert Genn
Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. -- Duncan Hunter
Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent. -- Frank Gaffney
... 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

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