Quotes About Selection

Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73.  He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. 

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I picked you for this task, Colonel, precisely because you won't do it lightly.

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.

Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with greatness in men.

We always have choices. Isn't that what Dante teaches us?

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Unfortunately, the selection mechanism is often some combination of beauty and shock value, rather than pertinence and accuracy.

Optimal range would have been nice, but then 'optimal' merely meant 'preferred'.

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

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Just like any electorate, they delighted in making candidates for their favors sweat.

In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE

Does it go on the "keeper" pile or does it go on the "discard" pile? That's the first question your prospects are probably going to ask, because it's likely that the reviewers are staring at a pile of submissions much larger than they can reasonably handle.

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.

Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that's the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.