Effective Quotes

“Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Sometimes...
I don't tell people about their wrongdoings.
I tell them about the gain of doing otherwise.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Ungkapan cinta tulus yang persisten
sangat efektif untuk meluluhkan hati.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action,' Sophie remarked. 'If you do nothing, you'll be sending a clear message: that you're stronger than they think you are. Not to mention a lot classier. Think about it.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

“Poison may be a coward's weapon, but it's an effective one.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Depth gets context when breadth gets attention.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Time spent effectively can be compensated”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Everyone can do something, but your ability to use the tools effectively makes you stand out from others.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Imagine that you are on the street and someone attacks you. If you feel that you must fight back to defend yourself, you might instinctively make a fist and punch at the attacker’s head. In the heat of the moment, you might try to do this over and over again, using one instrument against one target. While natural, this may not be the most effective approach, especially against a competent attacker. Rather, you want to “work the whole body.” Instead of focusing narrowly on one target, or using only one method of attack, more experienced fighters will consider all of their instruments (two hands, two feet, knees, elbows, nearby items that can be used for defense, and so on) and evaluate all potential areas that could be targeted.”
― Deepak Malhotra, Negotiating the impossible: how to break deadlocks and resolve ugly conflicts

“Even if we do our best to safely and effectively respond to the other person’s verbal attack, we still have to face up to the fact that it’s going to take a little while for him or her to settle down.”
― Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

“There are many different paths to superior outcomes in business. You will have to find your own path, one that suits your temperament, disposition, and natural aptitudes. Therefore, don't try to copy or emulate other leaders—including me. Don't ask yourself in tough situations, “What would Frank do?” That will only slow down the process of finding your own path. Instead, make the most of your unique aggregate of experiences. Apply those experiences, and the insights we've discussed in previous chapters, to become a truer, more honed, more effective version of who you already are. Finding your own path, however long it takes, will unlock your personal power.”
― Frank Slootman, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

“I ended up with a love hate relationship with my neurologist. I loved the fact that he was accurately diagnosing my mental health conditions, but hated that he could offer few effective solutions to the problems.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“The work of a genius must be opposite himself in that it must retain some capacity of being understood.”
― Criss Jami

“The combination of Adderall and Pramipexole were the most effective drugs the medical profession prescribed to me.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“There are times in life---sometimes, not always---when the water on paper drips with the color of just the perfect hue, until the effect is something so ethereal that the artist knows it must simply be experienced because she can never produce it again.
And the color shifts over time, shifts still over sunlight, until the watercolors fade completely back into the paper itself, and all that's left is the memory.”
― Ashley Clark, Paint and Nectar

“Ghost steps in time management are measuring things and getting efficient at it when it doesn’t need to be done at all. Ghost steps can show up as to-do lists, but they can also show up as
major projects that don’t need to be done and everything in between.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Guilt provides far more effective motivation than greed. For greed, at times, can be satiated.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Imager

“Publicly telling the truth on social media can be one of the most effective healing journeys.”
― Steven Magee

“You do not need harmful substances to face painful circumstances. You just need to be prayerful. Prayer is always effective.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“Sun so generous it shall be you,
Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
You sweaty brooks and dew it shall be you,
Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you."


Robert stopped, and surveyed her face. Waiting, Lavender supposed, for a response.
"The passage strikes me as amorous and carnal, Sir. The parlor grows cold. We need more fire." She rose quickly and scratched around with kindling and sticks Arlo Snook had, in his habitual way, stacked neatly by the fireplace. The task allowed her to turn away from Robert, for in truth, Whitman's words unsettled her, their anatomy parts she'd heard only in ladies' physical education at Cobourg Academy.”
― Jeanette Lynes, The Apothecary's Garden

“Half of the time I don’t know what I’m doing. The other half I think I know what I’m doing (which means half of that time I don’t know what I’m doing either). And sadly, whatever bit of me actually knows what it’s doing is often plagued by the doubt that it actually does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I first started researching Altitude Hypersensitivity, I would see a lot of very weird reactions to altitude exposures. Having developed an effective treatment for the condition, I rarely see reactions to altitude exposures.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The multivitamin is the base supplement to build an effective nutritional supplementing protocol from.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Those who have children can become masters of patience, endurance & steadfastness because children will test you at every turn. The way to make our children patient & loving is to be that way ourselves.”
― Eknath Easwaran