Top 100 Effective Work Quotes
#1. As Christians, we needn't be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. 7For I do not want to see you now n just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, o if the Lord permits. 8But I will stay in Ephesus until p Pentecost, 9for q a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and r there are many adversaries.
Anonymous
#3. A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.
Dwight L. Moody
#4. Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#5. Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.
Archibald Marwizi
#6. She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.
Mark Twain
#7. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.
Jello Biafra
#9. The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
Michael Mandelbaum
#10. To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively
Sunday Adelaja
#11. We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.
Jim Calhoun
#12. When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Laozi
#13. There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
Tom Peters
#15. What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?
Francis Spufford
#16. Human Technology suggests that meditative experience can be deeper if preceded by stimulation and energizing our bodies and breath.We do this through "meridian exercises", an effective way of moving our bodies to improve our breath-work and to enhance our awareness while energizing our bodies.
Ilchi Lee
#17. What's more, veteran teachers who work long-term in high-poverty schools with low test scores are actually more effective at raising student achievement than is the rotating cast of inexperienced teachers who try these jobs out but flee after one to three years.
Dana Goldstein
#19. One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#20. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
Travis Bradberry
#21. Nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.
Mark Kurlansky
#22. Effective churches manage their resources - budgets, schedules, personnel - to accomplish the work of God in their communities without making efficiency the ruling principle of the congregation.
Thomas White
#23. The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
Jane Fonda
#24. Effective managers," he thought, "manage themselves and the people they work with
so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#25. Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.
Evan Rosen
#26. Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#27. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#28. The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.
Robert Thurman
#29. The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Malcolm Turnbull
#30. 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
#31. I should be campaigning for his release in print in a way that appeared crusading but actually wasn't quite effective enough to work. Like planting barely noticeable seeds of doubt into the prose. Subtle. I
Jon Ronson
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
James McBride
#35. Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
Frances Hesselbein
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Communication works for those who work at it.
John Powell
#41. Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
Roger Harrison
#42. Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.
Bikram Choudhury
#43. 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
#44. Managers who work for very senior people must not remain in awe of their bosses if they are to be effective.
Subroto Bagchi
#45. A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.
Ken Schwaber
#46. You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively
Sunday Adelaja
#47. We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
Uwe Boll
#48. I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.
Tom Wolfe
#49. Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Focusing on the good isn't just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It's about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
Shawn Achor
#51. 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
#52. Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
Ernie J Zelinski
#53. We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
Walter Pater
#54. Effectiveness in life is a measure of how many products you are able to produce in life
Sunday Adelaja
#55. What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic
of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.
Robert Farrar Capon
#56. If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
Elizabeth Lesser
#57. One of Satan's most effective ways of blocking God's work is to convince us God can't use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn't true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#58. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Robert Bales
#59. The more positive action you take grounded in presence (stillness), the more effective you will become in your line of duty, work or social life.
Christopher Dines
#60. We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
Seth Godin
#61. Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.
Vitruvius
#62. Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money - a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's
Wendell Berry
#64. Time ... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.
Walter Bradford Cannon
#65. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#66. Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time.
Now, web designers and software engineers can develop a website
much faster and more simply, enabling them to be more productive
and effective in their work.
Bruce Perens
#67. If you want to be more effective when sharing yourself and your work, you need to become a better storyteller.
Austin Kleon
#68. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.
Sophie Calle
#69. The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
Ben Bernanke
#71. Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
"The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954
Frank Lloyd Wright
#72. I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
Al Sharpton
#73. Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
Swami Vivekananda
#75. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
Indu Muralidharan
#76. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Stephen R. Covey
#77. I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.
Rick Moranis
#78. Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
Laurie Helgoe
#79. The most effective organizations, I am told, have both a "good boss" and a "bad boss," who work closely together. One holds us strongly, while the other speaks hard truth to us and sets clear goals and limits for us.
Richard Rohr
#80. The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.
Ann Cotton
#81. To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.
Louise Erdrich
#82. We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.
Grace Napolitano
#83. It takes time to earn trust and it takes time to learn to be open enough to work in at team in an effective way so that every contribution is "valuable" regardless of your personal opinion.
Auliq Ice
#84. When a particular function of the mind does not work well, it shows how effective the brain is when it does.
Joel Levinson
#85. To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.
Meg Whitman
#86. Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.
Brian Sandoval
#87. Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective.
A.W. Tozer
#88. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
Richie Norton
#89. Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#90. I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Alan Cranston
#91. Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.
Melinda Gates
#92. Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works.
Alexander Kjerulf
#93. To get an effective product, you need to find your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#94. Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
Peter F. Drucker
#95. The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.
Curious George Brigade
#96. There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#97. To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
Cordell Hull
#98. Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.
Stephen King
#99. Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.
Mark Hyman
#100. It's important to remember that even with effective communication, some problems won't be solved immediately. What's vital is your partner's response--whether he or she is concerned about your well-being, has your best interests in mind, and is willing to work on things.
Amir Levine
