Quotes About Selectivity

It's not information overload. It's filter failure.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.

Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment, It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn't matter to you.

It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I like quality over quantity.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.

I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as possible.

I love Daytona and Talladega. I'd like to think maybe I could quit one day running all the races and just run a few that I like.

All good professional gamblers are selectively aggressive.

I love the discipline of shooting film, because you don't cover everything, and I'm glad that I learned that way.

I think, as I've gone on, I've got a sense that there are some laughs I want, and some laughs I don't want.

When the audience expects you to do a good job, you become more choosy. It becomes a responsibility.

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

There's a terrible temptation to look at only what you want to, and carefully avoid seeing anything else.

Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.