Ineffective Quotes

(His fosh is one of the pitches Suppan throws in the bullpen when warming up for a start because of its importance. He holds the ball with splayed fingers, and it`s crucial that his arm action on the change duplicates his delivery on his fastball. Otherwise, the ruse is ineffective.) If you have a dominant fastball, it takes people off that fastball if you`re able to locate the changeup, ... If you can throw a fastball changeup, and it looks the same each time, that`s a pretty tough combination.

When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you`re photographing is people, bodies. You can`t really photograph an abstract concept, whereas a novelist can write about that. You have to photograph something physical. So that combination of things suggests to me a particular way to deal with violence. And it`s not a bad thing that people really understand what violence is. It`s not, however, a politically correct thing I do. I`m not a big fan of political correctness. It`s very detrimental to art in general. An artist`s responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you start to think about social or political responsibility, you`ve amputated the best limbs you`ve got as an artist. You are plugging into a very restrictive system that is going to push and mold you, and is going to make your art totally useless and ineffective.

(When employees with full access rights to your corporate data walk away from their active computers for a lunch break, your data at rest becomes available to attackers. Although securing sensitive enterprise data is not a new issue for businesses, some commonly used methods of providing data and network security have proved ineffective.) A lot of businesses try hard and throw money at the issue, ... then they dumb down encryption procedures and password practices.

I wouldn`t say that we didn`t look dangerous. We were inches away a lot of times from getting good connections. I certainly didn`t feel as though we were ineffective, Nicol said.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

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

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

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.

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.

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They`re assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else`s.

I think the message here is, pick your targets wisely, and do not pick on managements or boards unless they are demonstrably inept and the management structures are demonstrably bloated and ineffective. I don`t think that`s a conclusion you draw from the Time Warner experience.

Many of the donor programs have not only been ineffective, they have harmed the economy. Cash is not the issue. What you need is investor confidence.

When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective

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.

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.