Top 595 Effective Quotes

I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.
Dimitri Payet
I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
Adam Driver
While a guy may not be totally happy, he can be effective and do well for the team.
Jeff Van Gundy
It’s the individual effort of everybody working together towards a collective goal that causes real, effective change in America and in the world.
David Hogg
Business is usually a team sport. There isn’t one great person sitting there directing things. You can’t run an effective business like that.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
Gordon Brown
I really feel like I’ve written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
Dickey Betts
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
William Powell
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
Charlotte Whitton
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb
Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.
Renato Dulbecco
I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.
Sebastian Pinera
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
Emil Theodor Kocher
Value in medicine depends on information – as I said in ‘Let Patients Help,’ ‘People perform better when they’re informed better.’ It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.
Dave deBronkart
What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
Tom Perez
I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.
Mitt Romney
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you’re not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.
Brian Skerry
Fellas, one of the most effective ways to meet a woman is on the street.
Frank Vincent
I have seen how effective language attached to policies

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
Frank Luntz
If you look at the least effective of the ‘Twilight’ movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.
Mark Waters
We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they’re not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.
Rana el Kaliouby
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
Sylvia Earle
I guess the verdict is in – I am not a sociopath. It’s not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.
Whitney Cummings
It’s always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.
Justin Trudeau
The media’s about to become a lot more effective.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Caffeine is hard on an empty system, so I try not to do it unless it’s to get my heart rate up. If you drink caffeine 15 minutes before the workout, it can make it more effective. So I’ll do tea or coffee after breakfast.
Anna Kaiser
Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
Chris Sacca
Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient – there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
Margaret Heffernan
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
For me, I don’t participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
Laura Wasser
Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.
Loretta Lynch
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
Ben Shapiro
We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.
Elizabeth Esty
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
Aly Khan
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
Kevin Spacey
The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn’t really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
Barry Eisler
Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can’t frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it’s so effective.
Nasser Hussain
I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one’s spark of humanity.
Yossi Sarid
I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
Gina Raimondo
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks
You wouldn’t have thought Paul Heyman and CM Punk would have been so effective with the WWE Title, but we were because we understood our roles to each and the audience.
Paul Heyman
Developing countries can make great strides towards more progressive and effective taxation and spending through action within their own borders. But the damage caused by exemptions, loopholes, and tax havens requires action beyond national borders – it requires international action and cooperation.
Winnie Byanyima
Intrigue is so much more effective. I don’t like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art – people shouldn’t read too much before they explore.
Rupert Friend
I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it’s so effective.
Julia Hartz
It’s our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition – and an increasingly tough one as well.
Charles Kennedy
You don’t make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
Heather Brooke
Some of the policy measures that are important are politically difficult if taken independent of actions by others in support of common goals. Joint actions are therefore needed, and establishing a G-11 with an effective role for the IMF provides the viable way forward.
Charles Dallara
I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.
Reid Hoffman
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
Craig Robinson
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn’t, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Helen Frankenthaler
I don’t believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.
Jean Smart
King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA’s most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.
Ron Williams