Alternatives Quotes - Page 6

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.

I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

The alternative to discipline is disaster

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?