"Every time you are not practicing someone else is." -- Boris Becker, German tennis player
"When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did 10 times more work."
-- George Bernard Shaw,
Irish playwright
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams
"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unnecessary." -- Fred Allen, American comedian
"The 3 Cs of life: choices, chances, and changes: You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change." -- Anonymous
"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." -- Anonymous
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -- Yogi Berra
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." --Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." -- W. Edwards Deming
"More men have become great through practice than by nature." -- Democritus, Ancient Greek philosopher
"The real Québécois knows what he's after, and that's an independent Quebec in a strong Canada" "Le vrai Québécois sait qu'est-ce qu'y veut. Pis qu'est-ce qu'y veut, c't'un Québec indépendant, dans un Canada fort " Yvon Deschamps' monologues were known for their unrelenting irony, and often buried a message that was completely opposite to what the stage character was saying literally.
"A problem is half-solved if properly stated." -- John Dewey
"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved." -- Dorothea Brande
"Never complain. Never explain." - (explain = make excuses) -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Money isn't everything, according to those who have it." -- Malcolm S. Forbes, American publisher
"Any color ... so long as it is black" -- (about his ~1915 Model-T car) -- attributed to Henry Ford
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -- (about his ~1915 Model-T car) -- attributed to Henry Ford
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." -- Aldous Huxley
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." -- Franklin P. Jones
"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?" -- Groucho Marx
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham H. Maslow
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers
"Never apologize, never explain. Get it over with and let them howl," -- Edwin Milton Royle. Peace and Quiet: A Novel, 1916
"Ne reculez pas; n'explquez rien; ne vous excusez jamais. Agissez, et laissez-les se plaindre."
"Never retreat; never explain; never apologize. Get the job done and let them howl." -- Nellie McClung ??
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." -- Bertrand Russell
"Life is not about finding yourself; life is about creating yourself." -- Bernard Shaw
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." -- attributed to Socrates by Plato
"Nos jeunes aiment le luxe, ont de mauvaises manières, se moquent de l'autorité et n'ont aucun respect pour l'âge." - citation du philosophe grec Aristote??, mort en l'an 322 avant Jésus-Christ.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
"Even if you're on the right path, if you stand still, you'll be run over." -- Mark Twain
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
"Je ne suis pas difficile. Je me contente du meilleur." -- Winston Churchill??
"I don't care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target and hold it there, you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants." -- Zig Ziglar
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” -- Zig Ziglar
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George S. Patton,
U.S. Army general
The term was introduced by Herbert A. Simon in his Models of Man 1957
to obtain an outcome that is good enough. Satisficing action can be contrasted with maximising action, which seeks the biggest, or with optimising action, which seeks the best. In recent decades doubts have arisen about the view that in all rational decision-making the agent seeks the best result. Instead, it is argued, it is often rational to seek to satisfice i.e. to get a good result that is good enough although not necessarily the best.
http://www.great-web-design-tips.com/web-site-design/159.html - Humans usually select the first reasonable option (a strategy known as "satisficing" - a cross between "satisfying" and "sufficing"). We hardly ever select the best option from all available options. Our brain just can't be bothered to think all the time. Why Do We Satisfice? We satisfice because we want to reach our goal with minimum wasted effort and time. There is little upside to spending time and effort to find the best option. If we make the wrong choice, which happens all the time, we can simply click the "Back" button on the browser and try again.