Effective Quotes

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. (Aristotle)
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. View quote
Jesse Ventura
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. View quote
Matthew Arnold
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. View quote
Edward Teller
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. View quote
Peter Drucker
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. View quote
François Rabelais
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. View quote
John Ruskin
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. (Ulysses S. Grant)
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. View quote
Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. View quote
Mark Twain
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. View quote
Barack Obama
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. View quote
Charles Cooley
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. View quote
Michael Pollan
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. View quote
James Thurber
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. View quote
William James
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. (Erwin Rommel)
To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage. View quote
Xi Jinping
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Effective management always means asking the right question. View quote
Robert Heller
The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought. View quote
James Mirrlees