Satisficing Examples Quotes & Sayings

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. — Henry Ward Beecher

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. — Fran Lebowitz

Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested. — Terry Pratchett

For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. — Plutarch

Is this a date? I mean, like, right now? You and me?"
"I don't know, Molly Barlow. Do you want it to be? — Katie Cotugno

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. — Alan Bullock

Speeding toward him, my claws sinking into his chest. Fear sparked in his eyes when he realized that he'd gone too far and that I could break his neck in two with my bare hands. "Broach the subject again, Felix, and I will demonstrate just how weak I am by ripping your heart out with my bare hands. Her name is never to escape your lips again. Do you understand?" He nodded. "Yes. Of course. My apologies." With no — Bella Forrest

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit. — Simon Baker

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you. — Walter Isaacson

You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in. — Richard Dawkins

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into. — ASAP Rocky

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves — Muhammad Ali

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger