Optimal Quotes

63 quotes by 58 authors

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child. — Mayim Bialik
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,… — George F. Kennan
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a… — Matthieu Ricard
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for… — Gary Zukav
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find… — Melissa Bank
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then… — Ivan Pavlov
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Doug Henwood
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of… — Skylar Astin
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never… — Manuel De Landa
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist,… — T. Colin Campbell
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over… — Paul Samuelson
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. — Donald A. Norman
No one-liner can ever be optimal. — Stephen Jay Gould
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. — Amartya Sen
Defy the crowd. The crowd isnâ€™t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is… — Guy Kawasaki

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