Quotes About Selection

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"?

sparing only those species that could adapt to

America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?

Longbows, crossbows, hair bows, rainbows - that's not the point.

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

As to smart women making foolish choices, in the real world, this is not what's going on. These women are not doing the choosing. They are being chosen. And it's not because they are giving off peculiar, neurotic-type signals. It's because they are attractive, intelligent women who attract men. The problem is that so many of the men they are attracting suffer from the same problem—the commitment problem.

When I watch films, I skip songs. I don't like them.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

Nick was cast first in both 'Smashed' and 'Kings.'

When you're buying your whole fish, check that the eyes are clear and gills are a bright red colour and that there is no 'fishy' smell.

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

'Barsaat' is a romantic love song penned by Rashmi Virag. It is a song very close to my heart - that's why we plan to release it first. Actually over so many years, whenever I used to make a composition it would get selected for a movie. This time I was very determined to release it as an independent album and didn't give it for movies.

Artificial selection has become a much more important chapter in natural history as it has moved into the space once ruled exclusively by natural selection.

The people you spend time with make a significant impact on your state of mind and how you feel about yourself. Let this be the imperative of your business: Choose your clients as carefully as you choose your friends.

Choose your clients as carefully as you choose your friends.

Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females than average, could still be so miserable. By contrast, other males, scarred by neglect, riddled with diseases, spurned by their kind, were occasionally known to radiate a contentment that seemed to arise from something more enigmatic than mere stupidity.

ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.

was a female. Isserley wasn't interested in females, at least not in that way. Let them get picked up by someone else. If the hitcher was male, she usually went back for another look, unless he was an obvious weakling. Assuming he'd made a reasonable impression on her

L]iking something is very important evolutionarily, because most things are harmful to us. Of the millions of objects that we bump into every day, only a handful are beneficial to us. Hence to like something is to make a decision between one out of the tiny fraction of things that can help us over against the millions of things that might harm us.