Optimality Criteria Quotes & Sayings

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. — Alan Moore

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing. — David Attenborough

Before water generates steam, it must register two hundred and twelve degrees of heat. Two hundred degrees will not do it; two hundred and ten will not do it. The water must boil before it will generate enough steam to move an engine, to run a train. Lukewarm water will not run anything.
A great many people are trying to move their life trains with lukewarm water - or water that is almost boiling - and they are wondering why they are stalled, why they cannot get ahead. They are trying to run a boiler with two hundred or two hundred and ten degrees of heat, and they cannot understand why they do not get anywhere.
Lukewarmness in his work stands in the same relation to man's achievement as lukewarm water does to the locomotive boiler. No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings his force to his whole life, into it. — Orison Swett Marden

I have never had more pleasure than riding a horse naked at a fast gallop across an empty landscape. Riding is life. They rest is just pedestrian. — Chloe Thurlow

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often. — Epictetus

Misunderstanding kills the person who
claimed it & scratches the mirror of
his life & leaves specks on his soul. — Behnam Rajabpoor

Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things? — Kieron Gillen

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support. — Mason Cooley

My loyalty to the past - my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most. — Susan Sontag

If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere. — Rajneesh

Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me. — Ai Yazawa

My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing. — Dallin H. Oaks

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey. — Tami Hoag

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can! — Melissa Etheridge