Satisficing Quotes

#1. Satisficing is one of the foundations of productive human behavior; it prevails when we don't waste time on decisions that don't matter, or more accurately, when we don't waste time trying to find improvements that are not going to make a significant difference in our happiness or satisfaction.

Daniel J. Levitin

#2. The tendency toward an egocentric bias in satisficing is especially strong when a plausible answer is presented early on in the search process. We then tend to consider our task complete, even if it's far from being so.

Anonymous

#3. Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it.

Daniel J. Levitin

#4. In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Steve Krug

#5. What is everlasting? We are fireworks. Glowing bright and fading, we scatter sparks that soon die out.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#6. There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff VanderMeer

#7. I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

Connie Chung

#8. When it comes to finances, it matters less how much money you make and more how you spend it.

Emme

#9. Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house.
from surely he's dead by now

K.R. Albers

#11. Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

Dale Carnegie

#12. What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is the norm ... Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

Jacques Ellul

#13. Under the long and discurtained ordeal of the morrow's dawn, that

Henry James

#14. What did it clarify for you?" Pinky asked.
Mrs. Brown laughed. "Told me to keep doing and saying what I dam well please, and not be bamboozled by anyone. Life is too short - no mulling things over for a dozen years or so. What about you?"
"I wasn't on the ship

Kate Alcott

#15. In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

Bobby Jones

#16. You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave?

Henri Charriere

#17. Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?'
'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.

J.K. Rowling

#18. It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Nicholas Haslam