Effectiveness Quotes

Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Better planning guarantees success, ask anyone who has planned a one day event like a wedding. How much planning should you therefore put in the kind of life you want to succeed at?

~ Archibald Marwizi

Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your strengths and ambitions? What makes you happy and fulfilled? What are your inherent gifts and talents? Clearly define yourself.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Stop, think and use your brain! Don’t’ rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!

~ Archibald Marwizi

To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Defining what success means to you requires important meetings – board meetings with yourself. When the “me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.

~ Archibald Marwizi

People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.

~ Archibald Marwizi

If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.

~ Archibald Marwizi

To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Never fool yourself, success will not come by accident – it must be deliberately planned for. If opportunities don’t come on their own, they too must be created or attracted.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements.

~ Archibald Marwizi

No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

~ Archibald Marwizi

If we can recognize what makes us unique and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding—essentially, a transformative experience for our students.

~ Carlos Heleno

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Preparation is the key to leadership success. The more prepared you are the less your struggle to make it happen and the more your effectiveness!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout.

~ Scott E. Spradlin

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

~ T.k. Naliaka

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual, the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.

~ Criss Jami

A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.

~ Audrey Moralez

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

~ Jacques Ellul

Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.

~ Will Advise

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

~ Tim Fargo

Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS – major on the major things in life, not the minors.

~ Farshad Asl

Development of states, urbanization, mechanization and industrialisation have all brought phenomenal strides to growth and prosperity of economies and their populace. They have also brought with them the insatiable need for energy resources with the related offspring of instability, conflict, war and corruption.

~ Archibald Marwizi

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

~ Douglas Arnold Hyde

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

~ Chris Hodges

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

~ Henna Inam

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Most of us want to be authentic. Yet, we are not who we think we are. We are made up of a rich array of facets and possibilities, many of which we ignore because we label them as “bad”. We create a cardboard cutout image of ourselves to look good to others. The discord between who we are and the image we have to live up to slowly kills our aliveness. When we suppress parts of ourselves, it lowers our mojo, sense of fulfillment, leadership effectiveness and impact in the workplace.

~ Henna Inam

To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

~ Henna Inam

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

~ Curious George Brigade

To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

~ Stephen R. Covey