Optimal Quotes
63 quotes by 58 authors
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Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.
— Mayim Bialik
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
— Donald A. Norman
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No one-liner can ever be optimal.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
— Amartya Sen
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Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’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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