Top 100 Most Effective Sayings
#1. Giving and receiving unconditional love is the most effective and powerful way to personal wholeness and happiness.
John Bradshaw
#2. I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle
#3. Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
Isaac Asimov
#4. As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Jean Giraudoux
#5. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#6. 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
#7. Even systems that do not use menus need to provide some structure: appropriate constraints and forcing functions, natural good mapping, and all the tools of feedforward and feedback. The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.
Donald A. Norman
#8. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?
P.A. Minyard
#9. I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
Alix Smith
#10. The most effective way to see if you understand a concept is to first review it and they try to explain it in your own words as if you were teaching an imaginary class or a five year old.
Sahil Bora
#11. Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.
Dalai Lama
#12. The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.
Russell Lynes
#13. The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
Steve Backley
#14. Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
Ed Bliss
#15. The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
Rudolf Arnheim
#16. As a retailer, I would ask the customer, "What is it you want in life?" Whatever answer they give, I would help them to say the correct answer, or the most effective answer, for anyone - feeling good.
Wayne Dyer
#17. The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.
Matthew Hussey
#18. The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#19. The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation ... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
J. Edgar Hoover
#20. To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have
Phil Harding
#21. When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.
Pamela Ronald
#22. The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
David F. Houston
#23. Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
Dario Fo
#24. Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
David Graeber
#25. She had discovered that the most effective method of keeping the fear at bay was to fantasize about something that gave her a feeling of strength. She closed her eyes and conjured up the smell of gasoline.
Stieg Larsson
#27. Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
Isaac Watts
#28. Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.
Donna Edwards
#29. Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.
Kevin Kwan
#30. The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!
Wesley K. Wark
#31. My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.
Annabelle R. Charbit
#32. The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.
Sheri L. Dew
#33. 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
#34. The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#35. We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.
Bill Maris
#36. A wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference.
Ayn Rand
#37. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
Philip Yancey
#38. Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
Rick Warren
#40. Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
Todd Park
#41. The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
Robert Wyatt
#42. The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but the one that has no need for censorship whatsoever.
Evgeny Morozov
#43. The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.
Carly Fiorina
#44. The Wehrmacht was and would remain by far the most effective fighting force in the European theater, even though its chances for a traditional victory were now nil.
Anonymous
#45. Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
Hannah Arendt
#46. I realized that my money would do vastly more good for others than it could for me and decided to make a commitment to donating to the most effective charities I could find. Many people contacted me asking how they could do this as well, and so I set up giving what we can.
Toby Ord
#47. The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
#48. Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?
Napoleon Hill
#49. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
#50. The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
Richard G. Scott
#51. It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
Aly Khan
#52. I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
Morgan Freeman
#53. Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.
Jim Butcher
#54. Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Martha Gellhorn
#55. The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
Thomas Merton
#56. Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
Joan Didion
#57. The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.
Pitirim Sorokin
#58. Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
Blanche Lincoln
#59. Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
Assar Lindbeck
#60. The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service members makes Americans rightfully proud.
Claire McCaskill
#61. That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.
Magha
#62. There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective way to structure a speech is to build it around a single significant thought.
Keith Willhite
#63. The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.
John W. Gardner
#64. When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#65. One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. 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
#67. The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks
#68. I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."
John Ashcroft
#69. We are most effective when we are able to lean in fully to the resource of the other people in our lives.
Henry Kimsey-House
#70. Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
Nigel Hamilton
#71. Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
J.D. Greear
#72. Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don't think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here's lunch. Let's eat that instead of eachother.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. Networked cows are the most effective milk generators on the planet.
Peter Hinssen
#74. Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognised before.
Friedrich Hayek
#76. The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don't worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.
David Gerrold
#77. Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
Emil Theodor Kocher
#78. The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
Herbert Lom
#79. Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
Matt Mullenweg
#80. It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
#81. The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.
Deepak Chopra
#82. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.
Christina Romer
#83. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#84. Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.
Allan Jacobs
#85. If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
Martha McSally
#86. Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
Jake Barton
#87. A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.
Jay Leno
#88. Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
Studs Terkel
#89. Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#90. Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you're stagnant you get caught in the past.
Tony Curl
#91. The cheapest, most effective way to connect with others is to look them in the eye.
Nicholas Boothman
#92. The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem, then we never have to worry about what to do about it. And the most effective way to deny a reality is to make it invisible.
Melanie Joy
#94. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.
Isaac Asimov
#95. We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear."
"Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?"
"Poor grammar skills.
Lita Burke
#96. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#97. I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.
Garth Kravits
#98. A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.
Zig Ziglar
#99. Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
John Dewey
#100. The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.
Bryant McGill
