Top 100 Be Effective Quotes
#1. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan
#2. Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously, the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorists, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them.
Bernard Lewis
#3. Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.
Andrew Saul
#4. Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.
Dawson Trotman
#5. First be effective and then be efficient.
Ron Kaufman
#6. Creativity allows people to be effective.
Bill Gates
#7. Anytime you open a business, you have to be effective in promoting whether it's a franchise or not. You'll need to learn to be a Web marketer extraordinaire. There's plenty of material out there.
Dave Ramsey
#8. You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.
Kate Avery Ellison
#9. I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
Jeffrey Wright
#10. The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith
#11. Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it
Malik Ibn Anas
#12. In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
Aristotle.
#13. Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#14. Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
Patti Davis
#15. To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.
Henna Inam
#16. Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.
Zach Braff
#18. If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.
Richard Dawkins
#19. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.
Henna Inam
#20. Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#21. Managers who work for very senior people must not remain in awe of their bosses if they are to be effective.
Subroto Bagchi
#22. Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
Burton Raffel
#23. We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.
Jeb Bush
#24. Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.
J. William Fulbright
#25. No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.
Eugene Schwartz
#26. Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
Shaquille O'Neal
#27. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
#28. This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
#29. Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#30. I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
John Podesta
#31. In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
Wei Wu Wei
#33. If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.
Zicheng Hong
#34. For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.
Jack Welch
#35. One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
Allen Iverson
#36. In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer
#37. Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
Dalai Lama
#38. if a leader combines leadership principles with an understanding of context, there will be effective execution.
Russell E. Palmer
#39. In order to be effective decision makers and to live satisfying and contented lives, people need to be aware of their goals, desires, and purposes and need to be able to evaluate or assess the extent to which they are heading in the direction specified by their inner standards.
Timothy Carey
#40. The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
Eric Clapton
#41. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
#42. It wasn't enough. With that much damage, there was no way her blood would be effective quick enough. It would only delay the inevitable.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#44. Little Richard walked a few paces back, armed with a flintlock pistol, which he hoped would be effective against spiders.
Dave Barry
#45. The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
Leonard Boswell
#46. Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.
Martha Rosler
#47. Letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.
Luce Irigaray
#48. If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?
Bill Johnson
#49. To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.
Richard Engel
#50. To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
#51. Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer ... Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.
David Cummings
#52. We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
George Barna
#53. The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
Angelica Hopes
#54. I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
Marc Benioff
#55. To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.
African Spir
#56. Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
Richard Engel
#57. My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
Christine Quinn
#58. I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.
Drew Chadwick
#59. Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
Waris Ahluwalia
#60. Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.
Waris Dirie
#61. The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
Erma Bombeck
#62. We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
#63. You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.
Joseph Sugarman
#64. If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!
Wolfgang Reiber
#65. Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.
Shusaku Endo
#66. I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
Geoff Davis
#67. A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Ivan Reitman
#68. Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?
Lierre Keith
#69. I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.
Jerry Vlasak
#70. [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
Bill Gates
#71. Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
Vannevar Bush
#72. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Philemon
#73. Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.
Vida Goldstein
#74. Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those
who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.
Quentin L. Cook
#75. Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?
Timothy Ferriss
#76. For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.
John C. Maxwell
#77. Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.
Walter Koenig
#78. Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
John Desmond Bernal
#79. Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense ... but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.
Kay Granger
#80. Having the right goal is essential for Christian education to be effective. According
Neil T. Anderson
#81. Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#82. The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth
Eric Hoffer
#84. Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
Zac Goldsmith
#85. For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
Jack Welch
#86. U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul
David Ignatius
#87. I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.
Ellen Malcolm
#88. When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
Al Sharpton
#89. You can be effective in this world without stress.
Eckhart Tolle
#90. You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.
Richard N. Haass
#91. Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
Zig Ziglar
#92. We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.
Robert Wright
#93. To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.
Holly Duckworth
#94. Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.
Vitruvius
#95. The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.
James Heckman
#96. If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.
Kenneth E. Iverson
#97. If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.
Joseph Stiglitz
#98. If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
Gore Vidal
#99. I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
Mira Sorvino
#100. A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it.
Ezra Taft Benson
