Effectively Quotes

#1. I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences ... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#2. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

Ronald Perelman

#3. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Volkmar Sigusch

#4. If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.

Ilana Mercer

#5. To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#7. It's OK to be a big feeler. You don't need to learn to 'feel less', but rather how to effectively manage feeling everything in life on a big scale.

Heidi Priebe

#8. Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

Vladimir Putin

#9. You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

Jon Fishman

#10. Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

Gary Johnson

#11. Catholicism ... tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they were never there until the game was effectively over. It's just a ridiculous, obvious revisionist history.

Robert M. Price

#12. In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.

Paul Gillmor

#13. Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

Jamie Dimon

#14. Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

Al Gore

#15. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

Steve Goodier

#16. We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.

Derek Prince

#17. A country facing an aggressive enemy must decide either to be prepared to fight effectively or to follow the path of nonviolence to the end. In either case, the decision must be wholehearted and the consequences must be accepted.

Freeman Dyson

#18. Real ghosts are so much easier to deal with than the kind we carry around in our heads. Most people haunt themselves more effectively than any spirit.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

William Thurston

#20. Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Rick Larsen

#21. most students are capable of complex thinking and carrying out disciplinary inquiry but have not been given the skills or self-confidence to approach these tasks effectively.21

Ruth Schoenbach

#22. If in the men who are supposed to be good they only see a "virtue" which is effectively less vital and less interesting than their own vices they will conclude that virtue has no meaning and will cling to what they have although they hate it.

Thomas Merton

#23. The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Vint Cerf

#24. Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rhetoric that they don't even understand!

Brad McKinniss

#25. We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

James T. Walsh

#26. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Douglas Adams

#27. I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

Barack Obama

#28. Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

H.P. Lovecraft

#29. Change works most effectively when started from the inside

Megan Alexander

#30. If there is a hallmark for this age, perhaps it will be our ability to take the complex findings of scientific research and apply them smoothly and effectively in our everyday lives, to better understand ourselves and to love more fully.

Stan Tatkin

#31. Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all the other very weird people.

But today, the internet makes it possible for very weird people from anywhere on the planet to get on the internet and talk to one another.

Caliban Darklock

#32. Voters thereby prove themselves bad and indeed corrupt judges of such issues and often they even prove themselves bad judges of their own long-run interests, for it is only the short-run promise that tells politically and only short-run rationality that asserts itself effectively.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#33. I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used.
Distraction
That much I gathered. What am I supposed to be distracting you from? There's a chance that if I knew, I could do my job more effectively.

Kody Keplinger

#34. Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.

David D. Burns

#35. The sixth sense will empower your instinct endlessly if it understands the feelings. Thus the seventh sense is used to help the sixth sense in working effectively.

Stephen Richards

#36. As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

James Blunt

#37. Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

#38. Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

Jenny Shipley

#39. I hope you're appreciating the rich irony here: hospitals and doctors are using the Medicare subsidy (Medicare is the federal agency that doles out the HITECH dollars) to buy computer systems that allow them to bill Medicare more effectively.

Robert Wachter

#40. No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.

Charles Koch

#41. Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn.

Mark Lewisohn

#42. Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.

Sarah Parcak

#43. In particular, it lacked the skills to carry out pacification effectively - or as Kissinger politely put it, the special qualities developed in a decade or more of combat training do not include discriminating political judgment in volatile and complex circumstances.

Niall Ferguson

#44. Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

Marva Collins

#45. Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.

Rajen Jani

#46. Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

J. D. Hayworth

#47. Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast.

Robert Rowland Smith

#48. Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.

Wolfgang Schauble

#49. Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

Peter Drucker

#50. In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Phillip E. Johnson

#51. It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

William Moulton Marston

#52. I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.

Nick Hornby

#53. People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

Alex Gibney

#54. How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

Willi Unsoeld

#55. Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#56. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark

#57. Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.

Henry Petroski

#58. Casting people as victims works very effectively to keep them powerless. By keeping them focussed on all the bad in their lives, it leaves them eaten up with resentment for an entire lifetime and prevents them from taking those first steps toward an exceptional life.

Genevieve Davis

#59. By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Nicholas D. Evans

#60. Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

Sherwood Smith

#61. Do the things you were sent here to do effectively.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#62. to tackle the problem of healthcare costs effectively, we'll need a system in which "everyone is practicing at the top of their license.

Robert Wachter

#63. We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

John Owen

#64. There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Dinesh D'Souza

#65. Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

Edward Norton

#66. Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. I

Jenny Lawson

#67. She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.

Rick Riordan

#68. There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

Benjamin Rush

#69. Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.

Gudjon Bergmann

#70. The best thing I did in life wasn't learning or reading but training my mind to think effectively.

Robin Sacredfire

#71. A problem with global reasons cannot effectively be met with local measures.

Carl Grip

#72. You can't share an emotional experience you don't understand. Accessing feelings brings you a step closer to using emotions more effectively in your relationship.

Brent A. Bradley

#73. For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia ... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#74. Obese patients who try to reduce their weight by semi-starvation, as Rony noted, will always be fighting what he called their "spontaneous impulses of eating and activity." Once they give in to these impulses, which is effectively preordained, they will get fat again.

Gary Taubes

#75. Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

Bill Gates

#76. Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Madeleine Stowe

#77. The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Irving Babbitt

#78. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

Joseph Mazur

#79. The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

William Carlos Williams

#80. Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori

Howard Gardner

#81. If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

John Key

#82. Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

James Woolsey

#83. To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams

#84. Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.

Anthony Lewis

#85. Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner of civic safety and thus effectively securing a monopoly for themselves on killing at a distance.

Margaret Atwood

#86. My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Richard Leakey

#87. When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

Eckhart Tolle

#88. We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

Maajid Nawaz

#89. A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

John C. Maxwell

#90. Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

Jim Knight

#91. Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.

Saint Dominic

#92. The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#93. He concluded that there was effectively no way for an accountant assigned to audit a giant Wall Street firm to figure out whether it was making money or losing money.

Michael Lewis

#94. The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

Ted Cruz

#95. Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

Slavoj Zizek

#96. The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

Walter Wink

#97. The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively defeated by the hardheaded "centrist" Leninists by 1912.

Michael David-Fox

#98. Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others.

Auliq Ice

#99. American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Alvin Dueck

#100. Organize society effectively. The capitalist system is not the result of our collective greed; it is the manifestation of the greed of a few and the manipulation of the many. A global superstructure has been established to

Russell Brand