A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
有效性
Effectiveness
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
你的神话的深度是你的效力的程度。
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
脚踏实地，思想要高远。
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
效率就是把事情做好;效率就是做正确的事情。
The only people who can resist a quick fix are those that are not addicts.
只有那些没有上瘾的人才能抗拒快速治疗。
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
没有什么比高效地做根本不应该做的事情更没用的了。
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
有一千棵树砍去邪恶的枝子，有一棵树砍去邪恶的根茎。
Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.
当竞争因素存在时，我们的工作活动可能是最有趣的。
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
我们正处于合作与灾难之间的竞赛，我们的应对能力正受到威胁。
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
失控有时会导致锤子和人类失去理智，失去效率。
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
破坏是生活中必不可少的功能。万物皆有其生长季节，最终都会失去效力而消亡。
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
市场根据技术的实际效果来判断技术，根据技术是否成功或失败来判断技术。
I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
我深信，明智地同新闻界打交道对人道主义使命的成功和效力是最重要的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
我不认为人们可以准确地衡量一首诗的历史效力;但人们当然知道，书籍影响着个人;个人，虽然他们是大的经济和社会进程的一部分，影响着历史。每个群体毕竟是由数百万个体组成的。
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
科学不再像过去那样依附于“真理”，而是更倾向于直接的“有效性”，现在正滑向衰落，这是公民的失宠。
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.
对我来说，成功意味着在这个世界上的有效性，我能够把我的想法和价值观带到这个世界上——我能够以积极的方式改变它。