Quotes About Selection

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Memes, like genes, are selected against the background of other memes in the meme pool. The result is that gangs of mutually compatible memes – coadapted meme complexes or memeplexes – are found cohabiting in individual brains. This is not because selection has chosen them as a group, but because each separate member of the group tends to be favoured when its environment happens to be dominated by the others.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's people.

Perfect is not on the menu. Nobody is going to be your ideal candidate. You can't dream somebody up out of nothing that's going to be the perfect candidate, so you do have to pick between a series of bad choices.

Besides, I'm looking for a man who doesn't have quite the mileage and the wear and tear on him as you do!

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.

If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them.

In every area, i.e. what protects the workers, the employers, the consumers.. it's always the existence of variety and alternatives.

It's amazing what the gene pool will do to perpetuate itself.

Innanzitutto scegliete quaranta gamberi piuttosto grandi e vivaci. Devono essere pieni di vita e in grado di pizzicarvi con facilità il mignolo. Se avete bisogno di verificarlo, chiedete a un assistente; sono lì per quello.

I'd chosen- not the lesser evil, but the less immediate one.

There are authorities to choose from, Tharkay said, to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer.

really did not sell to him. He purchased of his own accord.

When he bred them, he would discover variations among their offspring.

Burbank might produce thousands of hybrid offspring from which he might pick just a few to propagate into a new generation.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.

It is a ground for legitimate criticism, however, when the ongoing movement of progressive education fails to recognize that the problem of selection and organization of subject matter for study and learning is fundamental," he responded (Dewey 1938, 78).

Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers. Thank you.

A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. —BEN JONSON

If you find yourself considering who to take for a lover because of his ability to defend you, you're getting pretty close to selecting a mate because you think he has desirable traits to pass along to future generations.