Effective Quotes
1526 quotes by 1154 authors
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Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other…
— Wayne Dyer
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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That…
— Maria Montessori
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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
— Norman Vincent Peale
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PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
— Edward Tufte
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage…
— Bertolt Brecht
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We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.
— Robert Wright
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The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion…
— Ann Coulter
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Enthusiasm needs to be effective enthusiasm. We must distinguish between the contribution and enthusiasm of the cheerleader and the enthusiasm of the player. While cheerleaders…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure…
— John O'Donohue
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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For…
— Mark Twain
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all…
— Adolf Hitler
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So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It…
— Haruki Murakami
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In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a…
— Dean Koontz
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
— Lawrence Durrell
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
— Aristotle
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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.
— Randy Alcorn
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...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence.…
— John Flanagan
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Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest…
— Rick Warren
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