Top 179 Ineffective Quotes & Sayings

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

I'm not going to risk our precious military resources on an ineffective, unproductive mission.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.

Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.

Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

The Indian government is weak. The Prime Minister is weak and ineffective.

Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.

Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.