Maximizers 3 Quotes & Sayings

The future qualifies the past. — Sridhar Bodapati

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby

Three quarks for Muster Mark! — James Joyce

I cannot walk past Peanut Butter M&Ms and Oreos. — Horatio Sanz

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot. — Dennis Miller

At present, the potential causal role that the availability of choice has in making people into maximizers is pure speculation. If the speculation is correct, we ought to find that in cultures in which choice is less ubiquitous and extensive than it is in the U.S., there should be fewer maximizers. — Barry Schwartz

Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively. — Barry Schwartz

Lydia, five years old, standing on tiptoe to watch vinegar and baking soda foam in the sink. Lydia tugging a heavy book from the shelf, saying, "Show me again, show me another." Lydia, touching the stethoscope, ever so gently, to her mother's heart. Tears blur Marilyn's sight. It had not been science that Lydia had loved — Celeste Ng

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. — John Fowles

Kindness is kindness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time. — Paul R. Ehrlich

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited themselves to a large degree when the candy was free. In fact, almost all the students applied a very simple social-norm rule in this situation - they politely took one and only one Starburst ... What these results mean is that when price is not a part of the exchange, we become less selfish maximizers and start caring more about the welfare of others. We saw this demonstrated by the fact that when the price decreased to zero, customers restrained themselves and took far fewer units. — Dan Ariely

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots. — Marilyn Monroe

The intimacy of her name on his lips: the years fled like starlings. — Jo Baker

While maximizers and perfectionists both have very high standards, I think that perfectionists have very high standards that they don't expect to meet, whereas maximizers have very high standards that they do expect to meet. Which may explain why we found that those who score high on perfectionism, unlike maximizers, are not depressed, regretful, or unhappy. — Barry Schwartz

Traditional businesses are profit maximizers, which square perfectly with Motivation 2.0. These new entities are purpose maximizers - which are unsuited to this older operating system because they flout its very principles. — Daniel H. Pink