You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
Sometimes as actors and artists, we don't really get to be an effective and integral part of the promotional process, other than doing interviews. With Twitter and Facebook now, and all of this stuff, it really allows us to play and have fun, vis-à-vis the pictures that I send out on Twitter every day, or little videos, or whatever it is.
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. . . . I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends-\-\they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Digital blood is not effective.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.
Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.
For me, the music that resonates the most is one with a vision. I think that's what separates artists from entertainers. There are a lot of DJs and producers that make entertaining tracks that are effective in the club. They may make you feel nostalgic, or they may make you feel happy, or anxious or whatever - that can be entertaining, useful, and functional but there could be no vision.
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right. " I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
Hunger is the most effective disease.
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.
It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.