Quotes About Selection

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

is never a struggle between good and evil, but between the preferable and the detestable.

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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

Amazon's rise was a surprise not because it became an "everything store" (not hard to imagine), but because Amazon's customers (me and you) rushed to write the reviews that made the site's long-tail selection usable. Today

newfound freedom in the Kindles and Fires. As I read a book I can (with some trouble) highlight a passage I would like to remember. I can extract those highlights (with some effort today) and reread my selection of the most important or memorable parts.

In an apparent nod to the previous year's "Freedom Under God" observance, which was set to be repeated in 1952, Truman selected the Fourth of July as the date for the first National Day of Prayer.

Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I Google "five star hotels, new york city" and scroll through the list. The Surrey—nah, too fussy. The Peninsula—just looked at that one last week. Anything Trump—no, thanks, too overdone.

We are the products of a long selection process of chemical, biological, and cultural structures that at different levels have interacted for a long time in order to shape the funny process that we are.

The possibility of predicting something in the future obviously improves our chances of survival, and consequently, evolution has selected the neural structures that allow it. We are the result of this selection. This being between past and future events is central to our mental structure. This, for us, is the flow of time.

NASA thought so. When they were soliciting applications for astronauts, they rejected people with pure histories of success and instead selected people who had had significant failures and bounced back from them.

this shower curtain is something you are going to look at Every. Fucking. Day. So I started going through hundreds of options online. Most of the designs are bullshit you could never stomach every day (a map of the world, go fuck yourself, fish, a map of Brooklyn, really go fuck yourself, snowmen, the Eiffel Tower, nautical signs—I mean, I'm not some fucker who buys scarves at Urban Outfitters and rates movies on IMDB). I just wanted something funny and classic.

Just as I choose a ship when I am about to go on a voyage,' said Jonathan, 'so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from this life.

If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie Landrith first in the expansion draft.

a loss unconsidered at the time. But to decide for anything is to decide against a multitude of other things. Taking is still more largely leaving. The full extent of this negative decision often escapes our notice, and through the very fact of choosing a good we blindly neglect a best.

Choosing … it has always hurt. And always will.

If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes," the king said. "I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone .

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.