Effectiveness Quotes

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
― Dorothy Day

“If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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 R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”
― Jacques Ellul

“A successful organization will always have an effective two-way communication system where information can easily flow from one level to another.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition”
― Henry Mintzberg

“Move back,” the man on the left ordered Valek. “Or I’ll skewer your friend.”

Valek considered the threat. “Do you plan to wound, maim or kill him?” he asked the guard.

“Threats should be specific in order to have the maximum impact.”

The man just stared at him.

“Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ’Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif’s stomach is his favorite body part so that’s a decent threat.”
― Maria V. Snyder , Ice Study

“I'm not in the redemption business”
― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International

“Do what you want that works.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.”
― Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You can only be fulfilled and accomplished in life when you effectively maximize yourself”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The ultimate goal of this book is to share what I consider to be life-saving and life-changing lessons that I was fortunate enough to learn as a key participant in many of recent history’s most impactful events. The single most important lesson I learned, and the plain but powerful foundation that supports the entire book, is that the most effective weapon on any battlefield—whether it be combat, business, or life—is our mind’s ability to recognize life’s underlying patterns.

Patterns of thinking, patterns of nature, and patterns of history are just a few of the infinite examples of life’s underlying patterns that inform the behavior of the complex world that swirls around us. Patterns reveal how the real world works. When recognized, they allow us to understand, adapt, and master the future as it unfolds in front of us.”
― Pete Blaber, The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

“Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To work for God effectively, you have to expand and stretch yourself”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Renewal generally refers to extending the life, validity, or effectiveness of something beyond its original term.”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“It’s not how fast the system runs, but how well it delivers — quality always outshines speed.”
― Ayoub Imilouane, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

“Move the needle—busyness is illusion. effectiveness drives transformation.”
― Farshad Asl

“Setting priorities is an expression of love for others and for God. "Unseized" time tends to flow toward our weakness, get swallowed up by dominant people, and surrender to the demands of emergencies. So unless God intends for us to serve only the loudest, neediest, most intimidating people, we need to plan ahead, set priorities, and serve more wisely so that we might serve more effectively. And notice, the word is *effective*, not *efficient*. Caring for people is often wildly inefficient.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“If you can take effective action, do so. If you can't, then make room for your discomfort, de-fuse from your worries, and engage in doing something meaningful, here, and now.”
― Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap

“The beauty of effective management lies in putting a plan into action.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“There, we became intimately familiar with the humbling trials of war. We were lucky enough to build , train, and lead high-performance, winning teams that proved exceptionally effective. We saw, firsthand the perils of complacency, … We know what it means to fail — to lose, to be surprised, outmaneuvered, or simply beaten. Those lessons were the hardest, but perhaps the most important. We learned that leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory, particularly when doubters question whether victory is even possible. As SEAL leaders, we developed, tested, confirmed, and captured an array of leadership lessons as well as management and organizational best practices.”
― Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership. Leadership Development Handbook.

“Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.”
― Anacharsis

“[T]he role of video clips revealing the treatment of nonhuman animals in the animal-industrial complex, typically in intensive farms and slaughterhouses, was significant in the men’s vegan transition. This is consistent with previous research that has also found that such visual material is effective in facilitating the transition to veganism and taking up animal activism, through moral shock (Fernandez, 2021; Middleton, 2015).”
― Kadri Aavik, Contesting Anthropocentric Masculinities Through Veganism: Lived Experiences of Vegan Men

“In business, we need people who can get the job done with a firm presence and grace at the same time. You want to hire good people who speak through their actions.”
― Sasha Laghonh