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Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. -- Tom Stoppard
In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs. -- Michael Steele
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. -- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. -- Eric Hoffer
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. -- Noam Chomsky
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity -- David Allen
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. -- Donald A. Norman
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning. -- Barbara Fredrickson
For both optimal health and weight loss, you must consume a diet with a high nutrient-per-calorie ratiothere are no shortcuts. -- Joel Fuhrman
If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point. -- Vineet Nayar
Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing. -- Joel Fuhrman
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words. -- Christian Rudder
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight. -- Jorge Cruise
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are. -- T. Colin Campbell
While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Our collaboration with Datapipe on a managed hybrid cloud solution for AWS removes many of the common barriers to cloud adoption. It offers customers the best of both worlds by providing Equinix's secure data center platform, including private access to AWS, along with Datapipe's expertise in designing and managing an optimal IT architecture for enterprises. -- John Landy
There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better than the rest. It ignores the fact that you must train at your optimal level, not your maximum level. Consistency is the secret to improvement and success. You have to keep training when others lose interest. -- Robert de Castella
For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love. -- Ken Cohen
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. -- Ray Bradbury
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. -- Matthieu Ricard
Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child. -- Mayim Bialik
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie. -- Harold Ramis
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. -- Donald A. Norman
To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based. -- Joel Fuhrman
The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do. -- Gerard Debreu
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. -- Nicholas Kristof
My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts. -- Joel Fuhrman
When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health. -- Debbie Ford
Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning. -- Naveen Jain
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. -- Henry Paulson
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything. -- Skylar Astin
I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally. -- Suzanne Somers
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language. -- Philip M. Parker
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? -- Tom Stoppard
Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives. -- Jeff Weiner
As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station. -- Linda M. Godwin
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary. -- Richard Berry
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. -- Vladimir Putin
It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will. -- Elon Musk
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. -- Ray Bradbury
No one-liner can ever be optimal. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty. -- Alfie Kohn
Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness. -- Brian Carter
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. -- Amartya Sen
I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself. -- Aleksandra Mir
Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions. -- Jaron Lanier
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. -- Ken Robinson
You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution. -- Barack Obama
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth -- Ken Robinson
Chiropractic care is an important part of keeping me in the best condition so I can perform at an optimal level. -- Perdita Felicien
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. -- Jacque Fresco
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. -- Bill Gurley
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. -- Peter L. Berger
Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance. -- Lorii Myers
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories. -- Leslie Bradshaw
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. -- Francis Fukuyama
As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions. -- Roelof Botha
CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. -- Annie E. Clark
We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life -- Deepak Chopra
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other. -- Mark Ravenhill
Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you. -- David Allen
The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly. -- Robert O. Mendelsohn
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative. -- Peter Watts
As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening. -- Ray Kurzweil

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