Top Effective Quotes
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.
Marguerite Moreau
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
Ryan Phillippe
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James Weldon Johnson All Effective Quotes
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen 
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Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Jan Egeland
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
David F. Houston
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There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
Moshe Sharett
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
E. P. Thompson
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We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.
Janet Reno
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
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Popular Effective Authors
Henry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMark TwainMohandas Gandhi AristotleEric HofferJohn RuskinWilliam JamesBarack ObamaRobert FrostGeorge W. BushLyndon B. JohnsonElbert HubbardRichard M. NixonDan Quayle
Franz KafkaAdlai E. StevensonDonald RumsfeldJim RohnBo BennettJames Russell LowellMorgan FreemanGeorge WashingtonLoretta YoungMaya AngelouJoseph ConradThomas SowellJames Cash PenneyWarren BuffettP. J. O'Rourke
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