Top 100 Most Effective Sayings
#1. The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.
Atul Gawande
#2. Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#3. Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen R. Covey
#4. I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#5. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.
Dalai Lama XIV
#6. That wild word, "Moor Eeffoc," is the motto of all effective realism; it is the masterpiece of the good realistic principle - the principle that the most fantastic thing of all is often the precise fact.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.
Leonard Boswell
#8. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.
Youth Lagoon
#9. Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws ... It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
Mike Royko
#10. Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
John F. Kennedy
#11. For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent ... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Herbert Schiller
#12. Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution.
Jennifer Gilby Roberts
#13. Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people's potential. Ask more, advice less, elevate your impact forever.
Farshad Asl
#15. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.
Paula Wall
#16. Another way to find whether an analogy is fallacious is to see whether you can discover a counter analogy. Surely this is the most effective practice in refuting analogy in argument.
Henry Hazlitt
#17. A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
Steve Zaffron
#18. 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
#19. The most powerful effects of brain respiration come through supplying enough oxygen to the brain by the effective circulation of ki (energy )and blood
Ilchi Lee
#20. Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.
Anna Broadway
#21. The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.
Milton Friedman
#22. The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
Deke Sharon
#23. The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
Edsger Dijkstra
#24. Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.
Alan G. Robinson
#25. The most effective intention is a desire for a conscious contact with your soul, a deeper connection to your Self. This is the most powerful purpose to intend every time you meditate, pray, or do any spiritual practice.
Derek Rydall
#26. The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
Peter Drucker
#27. The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Brian Kernighan
#28. After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
Howard Coble
#29. scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
Peter Unger
#30. 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
#31. novelty is the single most effective way to capture a person's attention.
Carmine Gallo
#32. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
Jennifer Echols
#33. The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers.
David Ogilvy
#34. Fourth, leading is the most effective action to take to succeed in all of life's endeavors. If you are not leading, you cannot be sure you are going in the direction you want to go.
W. Anton
#35. It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
#36. Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#37. Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
Napoleon Hill
#39. Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
Bertrand Russell
#40. As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier
#41. Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#42. Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#43. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
#44. I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.
Jim Glennon
#45. There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
Daniel Schorr
#46. Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.
Chris Vonada
#47. If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.
Stedman Graham
#48. "Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.
Walter E. Williams
#49. Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
Jan Carlzon
#50. The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' The most effective way to make something 'rare' is to make it illegal.
Ann Coulter
#51. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David Suzuki
#52. Anticipation is its most effective, most seductive, when the next moment remains a mystery.
Jason Luke
#53. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
#54. The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
Wilbert J. McKeachie
#55. The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
Krist Novoselic
#56. Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.
Stephen King
#57. The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words.
Auliq Ice
#58. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
Moshe Safdie
#60. There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs.
David Livermore
#61. I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
John Smith
#62. Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#63. One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
Viggo Mortensen
#64. The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.
Charles Spurgeon
#65. Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs
#66. The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.
Joyce Meyer
#67. Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
Pope John Paul II
#68. We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
Josh McDowell
#69. I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
Jonah Hill
#70. Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.
Jo Nesbo
#71. It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#72. To a person who loves, is not absence the most certain, the most effective, the most durable, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences?
Marcel Proust
#73. I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion, it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#74. An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Noam Chomsky
#75. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
#76. Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.
Guilherme Leal
#77. Staffing the opportunities instead of the problems not only creates the most effective organization, it also creates enthusiasm and dedication.
Peter F. Drucker
#78. Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
Peter Senge
#79. Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo May
#80. MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well.
Dan Ariely
#81. What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.
Michael Novak
#82. He always operated on the assumption that the straightforward approach was the best and most effective in any given situation. Say what you mean, mean what you say. The
Melanie Shawn
#83. The most effective missionsries always act out of love
Dallin H. Oaks
#84. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
#85. BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner.
Omar Barghouti
#86. The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.
Georges St-Pierre
#87. For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.
Justin Frankel
#88. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly
Peter M. Senge
#89. The way the church wins its people shapes its people. So the most effective way to turn your church into a collection of consumers and customers is to treat them like that's what they are.
Jared C. Wilson
#90. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).
Donalyn Miller
#91. You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.
T. B. Joshua
#92. In the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.
Emmet Fox
#93. A woman's mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife in the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.
Brandon Sanderson
#94. The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
Clark Kerr
#95. As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
Naguib Mahfouz
#96. If you want your kids to know and love God, is it most effective for you to miss church all summer so they can play ball?
Herbert Cooper
#97. The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.
Saul Alinsky
#98. Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.
Deepak Chopra
#99. I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
Whitney Young
#100. People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
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