100+ Optimal Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Difficulty, Optimal, Maximum

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

- Barack Obama

topic: Come Up, Optimal, Solutions

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.12, Harper Collins

topic: Optimal, Happens

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

- Brian Carter

topic: Health, Sick, People, Optimal

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 production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Art, Fun, Children, Creativeness, Optimal

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

- Susan Cain

topic: Bored, Adequacy, Flow, Optimal

Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

- Paul Dudley White

topic: Healthy, Brain, Adults, Physical Fitness, Optimal

There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better than the rest. It ignores the fact that you must train at your optimal level, not your maximum level. Consistency is the secret to improvement and success. You have to keep training when others lose interest.

- Robert de Castella

topic: Running, Ideas, Long, Optimal

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 that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

- Melissa Bank

topic: Inspirational, Distance, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point.

- Vineet Nayar

topic: Trying, Way, Company, Optimal

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

- Roelof Botha

topic: Wall, Rushing, Long, Optimal

European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

- Yanis Varoufakis

topic: Years, Europe, Greek, Optimal, Parliamentary

People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

topic: Clever, People, One Liner, Optimal, Quip

To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your body's reserves.

- Mike Mentzer

topic: Curls, Example, Body, Optimal, Imperatives

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Lying, Past, Quirky, Optimal

Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

topic: Past, Our World, Perfection, Optimal, Rigged

If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Impact, Marketing, Optimal, Clinicals

For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts.

- Joel Fuhrman

topic: Loss, Weight, Shortcuts, Optimal, Nutrients

Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises.

- John Landy

topic: Clouds, Data, Adoption, Optimal, Data Centers

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

- Stephen Jay Gould

topic: Extinction, Way, Blind, Optimal

Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

topic: Order, Psychics, Skills, Optimal, Achieving Happiness

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Way, Problem, Very Good, Large Companies, Optimal

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.

- Erik Wemple

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Hygiene, Organization, Two, Optimal, Live Television

You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

- James M. Buchanan

source: Source: www.aims.ca

topic: Gdp, Rights, Government, Optimal, Rules And Regulations

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Stress, Long, Levels, Optimal, Stimulation

The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

- Robert M. Sapolsky

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Stress, Individual Differences, Games, Optimal, Yemen

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

- Chris Cleave

source: "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

topic: War, Distance, Thinking, Optimal

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.

- Mark Ravenhill

topic: Ideas, Optimism, World, Optimal, Rereading

When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.

- John Assaraf

source: Source: insearchofheroes.com

topic: People, Anxiety, Doubt, Optimal

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.

- Annie E. Clark

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Long, People, Optimal, Musical Expression