A Quotes
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“An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.”
“An effective remediation session includes a well-structured preliminary phase for conducting assessment, defining learning objectives and selecting resources and strategies.”
“An effective short story, or piece of flash fiction, delivers the impact of a novel in only a few thousand words, or only a few hundred. It is a singularity, a moment of remarkable meeting between reader and writer.”
“An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.”
Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
“An effective strategy almost always involves both doing something and not doing something, and knowing when to choose the right alternative. To succeed, the strategy that is chosen ultimately depends on the acquisition of as much information as possible.”
“An effective strategy begins with clarity; clarity of purpose, value, and direction.”
“An effective strategy turns risk into opportunity and motion into momentum.”
“An effective study for an hour can take you to a greater height beyond your imagination.”
“An effective vision statement should evoke a sense of inspiration and motivation, rallying stakeholders around shared ideals and aspirations for the future.”
“An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries”
“An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.”
“An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.”
“An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.”
Source: Closing the Ring
“An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained; and, with those whose peculiarities he has had no opportunity of learning, he should politely inquire how they wish their beverages served, and use his best judgment in endeavoring to fulfill their desires to their entire satisfaction. In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success.”
Source: Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks
“An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life
“An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.”
“An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819
“An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.”
“An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.”
Source: Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.”
“An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.”
“An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.”
“An egalitarian culture (which is no longer particular to progressives, but de rigueur among conservative Christians, as well) cannot fail to hate beauty, for beauty is riotously unfair. The more acclimatized to socialist thought America becomes, the less talent will be allowed to matter. The late aggrandizement of pretentious hacks like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko betrays the progressivist’s frustration with the inequalities beauty invariably establishes.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.”
“An
egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion; and, even here, we all believe
and hope the human spirit of individual man will rise up and
thwart any such attempts to achieve an ant-heap world. In
short, the portrayal of an egalitarian society is horror fiction
because, when the implications of such a world are fully
spelled out, we recognize that such a world and such attempts
are profoundly antihuman; being antihuman in the deepest
sense, the egalitarian goal is, therefore, evil and any attempts
in the direction of such a goal must be considered evil as well.”
Source: Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
“An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.”
“An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.”
“An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.”
“An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.”
“An egg somewhere in the world waits to come out of the shell to discover this world! With every new born being, the world gets a new chance to change its own fate in a positive or negative way!”
“An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.”
“An ego always looks at his face in the mirror never in his eyes.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An ego and appreciation for truth, knowledge, and beauty drives creative efforts.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An ego devoted to fighting against all the world’s slurs is bound for trouble.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.”
Source: One Soul, Many Faces: Revealing the Hidden Truth
“An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.”
“An ego unchecked is like a fire out of control. Keep it in check, and it can be a source of warmth for the soul.”
“An ego will always be a lonely place in which to live.”
“An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.”
Source: Reflections
“An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.”
“An egoist is a man who denies the existence of ego in him.”
“An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.”
“An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.”
“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”
“An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.”
“An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.”
“An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.”
Source: The Gambler: A Novel
“An eighteenth-century Gujarati text of the Satpanth Nizari Isma'ilis tells of a renowned Isma'ili and Sûfî master imparting Tantric spiritual instruction to a Nath Siddha Jogi master. It includes both Islamic and Tantric terms, and demonstrates the intersection of these two traditions. A portion of this document has been published with a study by Dominique Sila Khan as "Conversation between Guru Hasan Kabiruddin and Jogi Kanipha: Tantra Revisited by the Isma'ili Preachers.”
Source: Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess