Inefficacy Quotes

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.

Talkers are no good doers.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

The only thing some people do is get older.

Stimulus does not work.

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Washington specialized in doing something that does nothing.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

We've been fighting this war on drugs for 60 or 70 years and haven't gotten anywhere yet.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.