Quotes About Selectivity

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

El mundo es un conjunto de ojos, oídos y bocas, que se cierran para lo bueno y se abren para lo malo gustosísimas.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Actually I prefer brunettes.

I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

After 'Tarzan - The Wonder Car,' I didn't want to do any and every film.

Folks believe the side of the story that suits 'em.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

I deliberately ignored these things because I knew they weren't interesting. You can do a lot by avoiding bad as opposed to seeking good.

mientras que un dolor de muelas que de pronto cede nos hace sentir en la gloria, los dientes que nunca duelen no nos dan felicidad… De las comparaciones que ignoran el factor de la experiencia no compartida podemos obtener a lo sumo información acerca de la selectividad y el anclaje temporal y espacial de la tendencia a quejarse y del nivel de tolerancia al sufrimiento.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .

In the communication jungle out there, the only hope to score big is to be selective, to concentrate on narrow targets, to practice segmentation. In a word, positioning.

One could compare a lover's gaze to a barbecue skewer. Within the complexity of our nature, every lover pics up on certain elements and neglects others.

What makes us dream of some things and not others? Why might we pick up on a trivial event from the day and not something more important? Would it be possible to have someone dream of specific subjects by subtly suggesting those ideas?

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

Selectivity - the determination to choose what we will attempt to get done and what we won't - is the only way out of the panic that excessive demands on our time can create.

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

I am not a very private person, but there are certain things that I don't want to share with everyone.

If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you. But I must caution you. Do not read just anything. You must be very selective about what you put into the lush garden of your mind. It must be immensely nourishing. Make it something that will improve both you and the quality of your life.

Para vivir una vida de máxima plenitud hay que montar guardia y dejar que entre en tu jardín sólo la información más selecta. No puedes permitirte el lujo de un pensamiento negativo, ni uno solo.