Top 100 Effective Quotes

#1. Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God

Sunday Adelaja

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#2. The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

John Lamb Lash

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#3. 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

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#4. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Andy Stanley

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#5. The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

Tony Kushner

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#6. Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

Daniel H. Pink

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#7. To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

Henna Inam

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#8. 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

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#9. Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Temple Grandin

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#10. 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

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#11. The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Stephen Covey

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#12. The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

Larry Osborne

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#13. Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Daniel Goleman

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#14. Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers.

Hazel Blears

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#15. It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

Mike Huckabee

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#16. To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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#17. The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

Bob Rice

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#18. Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

Robert Moment

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#19. I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective."

Cassandra Gannon

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#20. On the other hand, those who are willing to wait for an extra season other two for full results (against an Japanese beetle) will turn to milky disease; they will be rewarded with lasting control that become more, rather than less effective with the passage of time.

Rachel Carson

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#21. The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

Sheldon Glueck

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#22. One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

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#23. Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life

Sunday Adelaja

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#24. Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

Scribendi

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#25. The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

William McDonough

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#26. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

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#27. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

Letitia Baldrige

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#28. When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#29. I'm a firm believer the the first two tenets of effective child-rearing boil down to "spend a lot of time with your children" and "cherish them," because, one, they need you when they're growing, and, two, they're going to be up and gone before you realize it.

Archie Manning

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#30. There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

Basmah Bint Saud

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#31. If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective.

Matthew Fox

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#32. If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

Zig Ziglar

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#33. What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

David Brenner

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#34. If time takes orders from man, it would have been reviewed to yesterday to correct the things that are effective.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

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#35. Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

Lendon Smith

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#36. Medicine was just another a tool you could try, no different from a healing ritual or a family remedy and no more effective.

Atul Gawande

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#37. Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Guy Debord

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#38. People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective.

Robert Jordan

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#39. Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

Jim Abbott

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#40. Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it's a more inviting one.

Steven Pinker

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#41. The kind of late where the 99% effective warnings on the side of condom boxes flashed before my eyes as I white knuckled my way down the 405, silently screaming, why me? Why, oh why me? I'm a new millennium girl. I took copious notes in 6th grade Sex Ed.

Gemma Halliday

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#42. Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

Cindy Crawford

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#43. Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

William Shockley

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#44. My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

Robert Ripley

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#45. I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

Bill Vaughan

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#46. Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Richard Louv

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#47. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Brenda Ueland

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#48. I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

Serj Tankian

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#49. I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

Elizabeth Edwards

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#50. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Joyce Cary

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#51. Pulling out weeds at their roots may be harder than simply spraying them to make them temporarily go away, but, ultimately, it's more effective and enduring.

Gregory Bassham

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#52. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

George Bernard Shaw

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#53. The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.

Timothy Keller

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#54. Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.

Seth Godin

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#55. What makes Helvetica more beautiful is the word "Helvetica" as a logotype in its typeface. It just makes the rest of the alphabets effective.

Shawn Lukas

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#56. It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people.

Mira Grant

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#57. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Frances Hesselbein

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#58. In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Aristotle.

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#59. You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

James G. Stavridis

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#60. She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.

Mark Twain

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#61. The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

Orlando Figes

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#62. The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Assata Shakur

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#63. To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.

Xi Jinping

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#64. Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

Malik Ibn Anas

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#65. To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

John Quincy Adams

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#66. the most effective way to build buyer personas is to interview buyers who have previously weighed their options, considered or rejected solutions, and made a decision similar to the one you want to influence. Unfortunately,

Adele Revella

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#67. Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.

Lucy Calkins

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#68. There's nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it's basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Tom Holt

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#69. Condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Peter Kreeft

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#70. It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

Richard Branson

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#71. John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

Alan Green

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#72. But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

David Jones

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#73. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.

Simon S. Tam

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#74. I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

E.P. Thompson

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#75. To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

Charles Kennedy

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#76. 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

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#77. Dissection," writes historian Ruth Richardson in Death, Dissection, and the Destitute, "requires in its practitioners the effective suspension or suppression of many normal physical and emotional responses to the wilful mutilation of the body of another human being.

Anonymous

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#78. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#79. Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Ben Rattray

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#80. The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

Wendell Berry

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#81. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

Elihu Burritt

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#82. Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does not take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through life with moody hearts and pain-stricken bodies.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#83. In essence, what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution. And it's been remarkably effective. People get very challenging problems and get solutions to those problems.

John Hagel III

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#84. Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Brian Tracy

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#85. I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

Andrew Luck

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#86. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

Daniel H. Pink

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#87. I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

Seishiro Itagaki

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#88. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Barack Obama

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#89. 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

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#90. When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Stephen R. Covey

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#91. Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.

J.G. Ballard

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#92. We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program,

Romano L. Mazzoli

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#93. Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

Paul Ormerod

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#94. Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.

Bryan Eisenberg

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#95. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

Andrew Luck

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#96. There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

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#97. I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Peter Senge

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#98. Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

James G. March

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#99. Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Elizabeth Janeway

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#100. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

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