Effective Quotes

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If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking.… — Zig Ziglar
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze… — Juliet Marillier
If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective. — Craig Groeschel
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .… — Umberto Eco
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it… — Brian Kernighan
Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users,… — Bruce Schneier
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual… — Kenny Smith
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication. — Unknown Author
For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our… — Josemaria Escriva
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,… — Unknown Author
Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond… — Dalai Lama
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce. — Richard Branson
Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness. — Tony Robbins
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik
If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how… — Dorothy Draper

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