Quotes About Selectivity

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

I won't eat anything green.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

We cannot study everything at the same time.

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.

A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.

consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

time and attention is just like the check, you do not just issue them to anything or anybody at all

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

I have selective hearing.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.

When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, 'Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.' But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that's tough.

I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.