Quotes About Selectivity

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

Sometimes you're hungry for one thing and not another.

Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

It is wise to read some books, and wise to throw away some.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

As my mother used to say, "Don't tell your husband everything, only the important things.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.

You think we started with a bunch of prehistoric ooze, and some of it just happened to turn into Bella Abzug?" They shook their heads. "There were some dead ends along the way, hence natural selectivity. But for my money, the rest is God in a Darwin costume. So if you can wrap your brain around self-organization, then evolution is intelligent design. The Lord is even greater!…But I'm not sure.

I'm not interested in doing every role that is coming my way.

That's the problem with models—they only include the details people think are relevant

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

the ultimate admissions goal is to be so selective as to take no one at all

Any telling of history requires choices as to what is included and what is left out and is therefore by definition an interpretation.

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

I can't take up every film that is being offered to me.