Optimum Quotes

• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

  Merle Shain

  Moon, Names, Rockets

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

  Charles J. Givens

  Strategy, Habit, Achieve

  Charles J. Givens (1992). “Wealth Without Risk for Canadians”, Stoddart

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• The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Eight, Water

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  Karen Armstrong

  Afterlife, Ego, Losing

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• The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

  Alexei Sayle

  Years, Comedian, Dying

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• If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Couple, Race, Two

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• The optimum human population of earth is zero.

  David Foreman

  Zero, Animal, Population

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• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Toxic, Variables

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• The optimum committee has no members.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiration, Members, Committees

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• As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

  Bill Toomey

  Exercise, Tools, Diets

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• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Population, Maximum

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Taken, Growth, Population

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

  Nido R Qubein

  Mean, Desire, Balance

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Unconditional Love, Safe

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• No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

  Linus Pauling

  Vitamins, Good Health, Evidence

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
  [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
  Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

  Plautus

  Men, Excess, Trouble

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• In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Process, Spiritual Life

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

  Linus Pauling

  Medicine, Nutrition, Tomorrow

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• Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

  Andrew Weil

  Roots, People, Age

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• People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?

  Charles Koch

  Moving, Mean, Humility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

  Larry Niven

  Jobs, Party, Moving

  Larry Niven, John Brunner, Jack Vance (1973). “Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction”

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• In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

  Butler Lampson

  Strive, Disaster, Resources

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