Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.
It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
No matter what other plans are out there, this is the best plan.
Buy locally where possible, but if you can't get the very best locally, don't buy locally. Buy it from where it is best.
I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.
Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.
A poll will give you the most popular answer but not the answer that optimizes the preference of a group.
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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.
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.
