Effectiveness Quotes - Page 11

• When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Character, Exercise

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

  Lee Smolin

  Words Of Wisdom, Principles, World

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• Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

  Zig Ziglar

  Confidence, Letting Go, Remember

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• It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important.

  Zig Ziglar

  Important, Situation

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• Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Patterns, Behavior

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.74, Mango Media Inc.

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• The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

  John Seely Brown

  Successful, Technology, Years

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• Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Years, Church, Twenties

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

  Beth Moore

  Hurt, Profound, Insecurity

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

  Marvin Bower

  Change, Jobs, Mean

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• Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Empathy, Efficiency

  Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.271, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strive, Greater

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• Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

  Don Tapscott

  Long, Innovation, Important

  "The Spirit of Collaboration Is Touching All of Our Lives". Condensed Version of Installment Speech as Trent University Chancellor, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 07, 2013.

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• Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Exercise, Caring

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Skillful means”, Dharma Publishing

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• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Fda, Risk

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• For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

  David Brin

  Teamwork, Honesty, Law

  David Brin (2012). “Existence”, p.340, Macmillan

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• There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Law, Dimensions

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.38, Pelican Publishing

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• A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according to high ethical standards. It must be self-policing. Without such a code, a professional soldier or a group soon loses identity and effectiveness. Once we know our job, have a genuine code of ethics, and maintain unquestioned personal integrity, we have met the first and most demanding challenge of leadership.

  Silas L. Copeland

  Jobs, Integrity, Army

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• To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Wife, Battle

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

  Edward de Bono

  Tools, Purpose, Values

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• Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Failure, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.

  Gian Fulgoni

  Business, Numbers, Online

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• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

  David Bly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Littles

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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