I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
The time some people spend worrying and crying about their problems is sometimes more than enough to find some effective solutions to them.
Success is what happens when a mind with a positive attitude meets an effective plan of action.
Working hard doesn't necessarily mean being productive, unless it is accompanied with an effective strategic plan of action.
Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
