Glen's Quotes Db (3169 total)

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin. Let me use disappointment as material for patience: Let me use success as material for thankfulness: Let me use suspence as material for perseverance: Let me use danger as material for courage: Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering: Let me use praise as material for humility: Let me use pleasures as material for temperance: Let me use pains as material for endurance.

Charles Malik is a Harvard educated Lebanese scholar and diplomat. He received more than fifty honorary doctorates from Canadian, American and European universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame. Here is what he writes: "The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. The problem here is for the church to realize that no greater service can it render itself and the cause of the Gospel, with which it is entrusted, than to try to recapture the universities for Christ on whom they were originally founded. "One of the best ways of treating the macrocosm is through the handle of the universities in which millions of youths destined to positions of leadership spend, in rigorous training between four and ten years of the most formative period of their life. "More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world." (Charles Malik)

Summary: there are two approaches to decision-making--being a maximizer or a satisficer. Satisficing is better. Herbert Simon first wrote about satisficing in the 1950s.