Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.Jeremy ClarksonFailureIneffectiveness Share this
Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn’t work.Frank ZappaCommunicationIneffectiveness Share this
Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.Mary SchmichAnxietyDistractionIneffectiveness Share this
Plum puffs can’t minister to a mind diseased or a world that’s crumbling to piecesLucy Maud MontgomeryDecayIneffectivenessIsolation Share this
We need a better strategy for poor people…because what we’re doing isn’t working.Mick CornettIneffectivenessStrategy Share this
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.Miguel de CervantesCynicismIneffectivenessMorality Share this
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.Miguel SyjucoAngerFrustrationIneffectiveness Share this
We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.George GasconIneffectivenessInjusticeReform Share this
We’ve heard this before; ‘things are bad, we are gonna fix them,’ and they remain unfixed.Fred UptonCynicismDisillusionmentIneffectiveness Share this
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.Warren BuffettBlameConsequencesIneffectiveness Share this
A stupid disgusting bore is a guy who has nothing to say, and nonetheless says it anyway.William C. BrownCommunicationIgnoranceIneffectiveness Share this
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.Luc de ClapiersAgingIneffectivenessWisdom Share this
Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.Jack LevinIneffectivenessInjusticeMetaphor Share this
Take the military option off the table – we have already seen it doesn’t work.Gerhard SchroderDiplomacyIneffectivenessNonviolence Share this
Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.H. G. WellsImpatienceIneffectiveness Share this
You’re like a dull knife, just ain’t cuttin’, just talkin’ loud and saying nothingJames BrownCommunicationCriticismIneffectiveness Share this
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.James David BarberChaosFrustrationIneffectiveness Share this
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.James DysonConvenienceIneffectivenessLaziness Share this
You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight.Jay-ZHypocrisyIneffectiveness Share this
If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.Albert EllisIneffectiveness Share this
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s no body at home.Alexander PopeFollyIllusionIneffectiveness Share this
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.Alexander PopeFutilityIneffectiveness Share this
Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.Dave BarryCreativityIneffectiveness Share this
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.David HilbertIneffectivenessProblem-solving Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity