Satisficers Vs Optimizers Quotes & Sayings

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems. — Chris Martin

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. — Anna Freud

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James

Would you believe me if I told you I had amnesia?"
Her eyes narrowed. She didn't speak immediately.
"Yes I would."
"Why?" The man asked. "Why would you believe me?"
The woman smiled.
"Because it's a terrible pickup line. — Luke Taylor

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill. — Robert A. Heinlein

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away! — Mercedes Lackey

Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye. — J. H. Plumb

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.
Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns. — Sharon Salzberg

To be economical agriculture must be ecological. — Charles Walters

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. — Charles Kuralt

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act. — Roger Craig Smith

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day. — Graham Moore

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly. — Sinead O'Connor

To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists. — Wu Wei