Reality is optimizing for the whole—not for you.

“Reality is optimizing for the whole—not for you. Contribute to the whole and you will likely be rewarded.”

— Ray Dalio

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and…

— Marc Ostrofsky

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large…

— Richard Thaler

I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into…

— Julianne Hough

“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions…

— Oli Anderson

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise

“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.”

— Abraham Hicks

“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

— Kathryn Schulz

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

— Amy Sedaris

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

— John Mayall

In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is…

— Elliott Colla

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

— Hermann Hesse