Quotes About Selection

We soon reached a dam and had to make a decision. We knew it was forbidden to cross a dam, in the same way that it was forbidden ever to use a footpath or forestry track. (Unless it was part of the dreaded morning battle PT.) This was a simple rule on Selection to make sure that you got used to navigating properly and that the going underfoot was always hard, which it inevitably always was. (In fact I, still to this day, feel a bit guilty if I go hiking on a footpath--old habits die hard.)

Many are called, but few are chosen.

You believe in Darwinian evolution.

Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.

Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.

The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

I have little confidence even in the ability of analysts, let alone untrained investors, to select common stocks that will give better than average results. Consequently, I feel that the standard portfolio should be to duplicate, more or less, the DJIA.

Readers of this book, however intelligent and knowing, could scarcely expect to do a better job of portfolio selection than the top analysts of the country. But if it is true that a fairly large segment of the stock market is often discriminated against or entirely neglected in the standard analytical selections, then the intelligent investor may be in a position to profit from the resultant undervaluations.

First of all, recognize that an index fund—which owns all the stocks in the market, all the time, without any pretense of being able to select the "best" and avoid the "worst"—will beat most funds over the long run.

When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice.

Men would be chosen for jobs on account of fitness to do the work, not because they flattered the irrational dogmas of those in power.

Ideas are merely points that memory selects in the flow of thought

God reserves the right to say what gets to enter the gates and what does not. Revelation 21 concludes with these words: "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

I'm not saying everything else is unimportant. I'm just saying that I've learned to see everything else as optional.

The LORD said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped… . But everyone else is to go home." Judges 7:7

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

Players should be picked on form, not reputation.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

With a rescue dog, you take what's at the centre as long as it roughly fits the bill. When you buy a dog from a breeder, you can choose everything from its personality to how shiny its coat is.

Research is especially important when we're deciding on a new menu.

I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

Now I want to play with the Ivory Coast. It has been rewarding, firstly because I am proud to play for my country, then because the Ivorian selection has quality players and has always been a reservoir of talent.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.