Optimizers 6 Quotes & Sayings

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it. — Joshua Bell

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. — Shalane Flanagan

Humans are great optimizers. We look at everything around us, whether a cow, a house, or a share portfolio, and ask ourselves how we can manage it to get the best return. Our modus operandi is to break the things we're managing down into its component parts and understand how each part functions and what inputs will yield the greatest outputs . . . [but] the more you optimize elements of a complex system of humans and nature for some specific goal, the more you diminish that system's resilience. A drive for efficient optimal state outcome has the effect of making the total system more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances. — Stanley McChrystal

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties. — H.L. Mencken

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. — Rosamund Pike

There have been great things that happened to me. — Cyndi Lauper

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum
a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself. — Haruki Murakami

is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. — Anonymous

Time doesn't heal all wounds; it wallpapers over them. — Marshall Moore

Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti