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• Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.

  Ralph Alfred Habas

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Effectiveness

• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Effort, Inspirational

  Tags in Effectiveness, Evil

• The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

  Freeman Dyson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effectiveness, Practical, Succeed

• Science, which is not so attached to ‘truth’ as it once was, ut more to immediate ‘effectiveness’, is now drifting towards a decline, it’s civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Science, Effectiveness

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

  George Nethercutt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effectiveness, Federal, Solutions

• Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Effectiveness

• 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

  Topics in Art, History

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Effectiveness, Poetry, Book

• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

  Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr.

  Topics in Challenge, Politics

  Tags in Effectiveness, Chaos, Doubt/Uncertainty, Difficulties

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Effort, Success, Vision

  Tags in Effectiveness, Plans, Purpose, Labor

• I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

  Alvin Adams

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Effectiveness, Humanitarian, Intelligently, Importance

• Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Topics in Attitude, Goal, Vision

  Tags in Effectiveness

• The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences.

  John Lovejoy Elliott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effectiveness, Hero, Interdependence, Hope

• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Teamwork, Trust

  Tags in Effectiveness, Responsibility

• The only people who can resist a quick fix are those that are not addicts.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effectiveness, Action

• Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Tags in Effectiveness

• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Effectiveness

• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Effectiveness, Myth

• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Topics in Goal, Ideals, Success

  Tags in Change/Growth, Effectiveness, Values

• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Effectiveness