Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Payne

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

William Hague

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Zig Ziglar

It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important.

Kathy Sierra

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

Eric Hoffer

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

Eric Bell

Green production is certainly an important topic for newspapers. Environmental considerations are part of every enquiry today and come into most aspects of equipment specification. On balance, however, cost-effectiveness is a more urgent requirement for most print organisations.

Epictetus

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Marvin Bower

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

Yuri Milner

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Twyla Tharp

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

Win Butler

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Johannes Kepler

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

Obie Trice

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

Nelson Mandela

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

Jurgen Habermas

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

Ken Wilber

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

Julian Baggini

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.