Effective Quotes - page 4

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being. (Paul Scofield)
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. View quote
Mark Shuttleworth
The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical. View quote
Saul Alinsky
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world. View quote
Vannevar Bush
For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP. View quote
Justin Trudeau
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. View quote
Walter Cronkite
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated. View quote
David Bohm
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. (Nhat Hanh)
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." View quote
John Ashcroft
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. View quote
Vernor Vinge
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective. View quote
C. Wright Mills
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute. The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up. These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day. View quote
Bruce Sterling
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. View quote
Stephen Covey
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged. View quote
Erving Goffman
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death - the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel. View quote
Richard Matheson
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. View quote
Michael Foot
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. View quote
George Orwell
There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient (...), and a random one (...). In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality. View quote
Warren E. Burger
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life. View quote
Walter Pater
The government is already involved from an entertainment standpoint. I mean, they regulate a large part of our entertainment. What we're trying to do as an industry is be proactive and drive it much more positively, much more effectively, than the government can, and that's what the ESA is all about[.... ]We think we're doing a pretty effective job, and certainly from an Nintendo perspective, we think the ESA is the way to go. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr