Quotes About Optimal

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

The real profit is made when real estate is bought, not when it's sold. You need to have a specific value creation strategy for each property, whether that value will be found in operating the real estate in an optimal fashion or whether renovation and/or repositioning can lead to a higher value.

All Systems Nominal

Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.

The optimal dose appears to be one-half cup,147 but beet juice is perishable, processed, and hard to find.

The optimal LDL cholesterol level is probably 50 or 70 mg/dL, and apparently, the lower, the better. That's

decided upon a more timeless, proactive approach: build an optimal weight-loss diet from the ground up. Based on the most compelling evidence my research team and I could find, I sought to generate a list of dietary attributes and components most effectual for weight loss. The best ingredients, if you will.

The players who score the most runs are home run hitters, not those with consistent batting records. "It's the same with trading. Consistency is something to strive for, but it's not always optimal. Trading is a waiting game. You sit and wait and make a lot of money all at once. The profits tend to come in bunches. The secret is to go sideways between the home runs, not lose too much between them."12

If we assume, however, that the desire to achieve optimal experience is the foremost goal of every human being, the difficulties of interpretation raised by cultural relativism become less severe. Each social system can then be evaluated in terms of how much psychic entropy it causes, measuring that disorder not with reference to the ideal order of one or another belief system, but with reference to the goals of the members of that society.

if we accept the fact that optimal experience is what gives real value to life, then we must conclude that politicians who strive to realize the common good are actually smarter, because they are taking on the higher challenges, and thus have a better chance to experience real enjoyment.

Perhaps the most powerful effect flow theory could have in the public sector is in providing a blueprint for how institutions may be reformed so as to make them more conducive to optimal experience.

I developed a theory of optimal experience based on the concept of flow—the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.

nothing in the world is entirely positive; every power can be misused. Love may lead to cruelty, science can create destruction, technology unchecked produces pollution. Optimal experience is a form of energy, and energy can be used either to help or to destroy.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. But in the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery—or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the content of life—that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.

This fact brings us to the second condition that affects whether an optimal experience will occur or not: an individual's ability to restructure consciousness so as to make flow possible.

In the long run optimal experiences add up to a sense of mastery--or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the contents of life--that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.

Ett val som bygger på nätverksteori kan vara sjuhundra gånger effektivare och mer ändamålsenligt [än ett slumpmässigt urval].

novelty to keep babies busy so that they are not unhappy and bothering us. Babies seek novelty to learn something previously not known by them about their world; as such it is a key characteristic and has a purpose. Too often, adults are completely thoughtless in what they give to infants, as if "any old thing" would do. If we want to give our babies an optimal environment, we need to think through the purpose of all that we give