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• Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Success, Teaching, Learning

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

  Robert Genn

  Keys, Focus, Development

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• As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

  Ben Bradlee

  Children, Adults, Looks

  Ben Bradlee (2011). “A Good Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

  John Brodie

  Past, Player, Worry

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• Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Stress, Charm, Results

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• I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

  Denise Levertov

  Book, Thinking, Historical

  Denise Levertov (1981). “Light Up the Cave”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Secret

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Teacher, Unique

  "Bill Gates Seeks Formula for Better Teachers". Interview with Stephanie Banchero, www.wsj.com. March 22, 2011.

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• The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Expectations, Discipline

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 285, 1990.

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• Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Organizational

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.

  Julia Marlowe

  Reality, Thinking, Views

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• All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!

  Wesley L Duewel

  Christian, Jesus, Passion

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• These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Military, War

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• The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Influence, Rise Above, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

  Grace Coolidge

  Men, Numbers, Encounters

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• Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.

  Edward Jenks

  Believe, Men, Years

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

  Bob Ross

  Too Much, Ifs, Loses

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• What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Character, Views, Firsts

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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• My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

  George Nethercutt

  Problem, Problem Solving, Solutions

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• Be a fountain, not a drain.

  Rex Hudler

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pain, Suffering, Church

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• You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, You Like It, Rage

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.82, Henry Holt and Company

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• To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, Eggs, Balance

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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