Quotes About Selection

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

When you make a movie with a lot of music in it, you can't always put all the songs onto the soundtrack. They just don't all fit.

We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others.

Ben & Jerry's Lifestyle: Lots of options, exciting flavors and never repeating a scoop.

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and t

Why?" She asked in a confused whisper. "Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal?""Because fate drove me to you.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.

He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

the members of your "Master Mind" group, and be very sure in your selection of this group, that you choose ONLY those who will be in COMPLETE SYMPATHY AND HARMONY WITH YOUR PURPOSE.

No individual may have great power without availing himself of the "Master Mind." In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the creation of PLANS for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. If you carry out these instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination in the selection of your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been half-way reached, even before you begin to recognize it.

be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.

members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system.

Hire the successful trader, conditional on a solid track record, whose details you can understand the least.

You may prefer apples to oranges, oranges to pears, but pears to apples—it depends on how the choices are presented to you. The

In a nutshell, the survivorship bias implies that the highest performing realization will be the most visible. Why? Because the losers do not show up.

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

naïve empiricism—successions of anecdotes selected to fit a story do not constitute evidence. Anyone

As we saw, nature has a filter to keep the good baby and get rid of the bad.