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Quotes About Selectivity

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.
~ James Jebbia
I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.
~ Tali Lennox
I don't take up too many projects at a time. I choose with care. I guess that clarity comes because my parents are from the industry.
~ Keerthy Suresh
I want to sustain the good name that I earned acting in 'Azhagiya Theeyae.' I am selecting my roles very carefully.
~ Navya Nair
To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
~ Ronald Firbank
With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.
~ Richard Crossman
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.
~ Ken Follett
Sabe que no es posible hacerlo todo, que hay que elegir las batallas que pueden ganarse.
~ Ken Follett
Todos toman lo que les conviene de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia y dejan de lado aquello que no se adapta a su forma de vida.
~ Ken Follett
Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.
~ Robert Greene
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
~ Robert Staughton Lynd
In the fool's mind, there are many choices; in the wise man's mind, there are few.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
One of the biggest challenges for a writer of nonfiction is to avoid using too much of his or her hard-won material. A great and enduring book isn't comprehensive; it is highly, even ruthlessly, selective, zeroing in on the most evocative and illustrative moments while dispensing with the clutter that might prevent the high points from resonating to maximum effect.
~ Alfred Lansing
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
y que la verdad es sólo la parte de la verdad que nos conviene, y
~ Almudena Grandes
If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
~ Rachel True
I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.
~ Mathew Baynton
The I&B Ministry, at their own convenience, can't pick and choose content in serials. We have weird commercials with a lot of objectionable content running on TV post 11 P.M., but nothing has been done to stop them?
~ Vikrant Massey
I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it's about posting things that are important to me.
~ Nadiya Hussain
You are more likely to win again where you have won before. You are more likely to win when you are selective about the races you enter.
~ Richard Koch
Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
~ Demetri Martin