We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

- Sam Nunn

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

- Peace Pilgrim

The only people who can resist a quick fix are those that are not addicts.

- Gerald Weinberg

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

- Peter F. Drucker

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite -- and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

- Peter F. Drucker

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

- William Arthur Ward

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey

The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences.

- John Lovejoy Elliott

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter F. Drucker

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

- John C. Maxwell

I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

- Denise Levertov

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

- Peter F. Drucker