Quotes About Selectivity

Because your memory is limited and filtered, you will be inclined to remember those data that subsequently match the facts

Cherry-picking has optionality: the one telling the story (and publishing it) has the advantage of being able to show the confirmatory examples and completely ignore the rest

Someone with optionality—the right to pick and choose his story—is only reporting on what suits his purpose.

As club members know, the very purpose of a club is exclusion and size limitation.

Yes, yes, but you have to remember people take from a situation the thing that they need.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

Não sou esnobe; eu simplesmente não estou interessado no que a maioria das pessoas tem pra dizer, ou no que elas desejam fazer - principalmente com o meu tempo

I have a special ring-system that must work before I will pick up my phone. I am not a snob: it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do-mostly with my time.

others are accepted at a highly selective school but choose to attend a less selective college or university instead.

we have a treatment group (those students who attended highly selective colleges and universities) and a nonequivalent control group (those students who were talented enough to be accepted by such a school but opted to attend a less selective institution instead).

Students who attended more selective colleges earned roughly the same as students of seemingly similar ability who attended less selective schools.

people enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

When asked what he thought the average trader did wrong, Tom Baldwin, who in the days before electronic trading was the largest individual trader in the Treasury bond pit, replied, "They trade too much. They don't pick their spots selectively enough.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.

I am selective about what I give my time to.

There are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently.

I won't eat anything green.

La verità è difficile da sopportare ed è per pochi

Do you know how few men there are worth having?