Optimal Outcome Quotes

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

I feel like with 'On the Town,' it was the perfect production and the perfect opportunity.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Being your best can only enhance your personal performance.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

Never settle for second when first is available

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

Of all the options I had got, I think whatever films I have chosen to do are best.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

That - 2012 - was definitely my best year, and sometimes it's hard to replicate that.

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

We all have choices that we are empowered to make on a daily basis, and while those choices can be limited by affordability and accessibility, we still have the opportunity to make our best choice. That best choice usually requires more effort and more thought, but, undeniably, the results are worth it.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

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.

Anytime you get a better competition level, it's always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.