Quotes About Selection

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices— literally their own devices—they read crap and they don't know the difference.

You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

Meet with several accountants, attorneys, and other service providers to get a feel for them and their practice.

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

The first way that selection can cause ageing is to keep early-acting mutations rare in populations, while allowing ones with effects late in life to become common.

Selection is also important in non-biological contexts. In designing machines and computer programs, it has been found that a very efficient way to find the optimal design is to successively make small, random changes to the design, keeping versions that do the job well, and discarding others. This is increasingly being used to solve difficult design problems for complex systems. In this process, the engineer does not have a design in mind, but only the desired function. Adaptations

Such a process of change will be especially likely if a population is exposed to a changed environment, where a somewhat different set of characteristics is favoured from those already established by selection.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet?

It's one thing to guess or use trial and error with respect to trivial matters or decisions that can easily be reversed, but you should try for a higher degree of certainty before buying a car or a house, and a higher degree still when choosing a spouse or a president.

God does not choose people because of their ability, but because of their availability.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Though you lead, not all will follow, for many are called but few are chosen.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it.

Levels of Career Decision Criteria

Choose well.

As we've already seen, individual selectionists insist that a creature—be he man or woman or beast—will only sacrifice his comfort if the payback to his genes is greater than what he gives.

It is time for evolutionists to open their minds and abandon individual selectionism as a rigid creed which cannot coexist with its supposed opposite, group selection

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.

If God had intended us to vote, he would have given us candidates

I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.