Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Ayn Rand

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

Aravind Adiga

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Don Tapscott

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

Claud Cockburn

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Andy Stanley

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Alvin Adams

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Andre Maurois

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Michelle Birdsong

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.