Quotes About Selection

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Arsibalt was horrified. "But how can you not be fascinated by—" "I am fascinated," I insisted. "That's the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.

What then is the criterion that the mind uses to select an infinitesimal minority of possible outcomes to worry about?

Yet I cannot be magnificent unless there is something to choose from. Some part of Me must be less than magnificent for Me to choose the part of Me which is magnificent.

You deserve them because you chose them.

You like a cracker? What kind of cracker? Graham, chocolate, cocoanut, whatever you want. Maybe just a plain cracker. I don't have plain crackers. I got graham, chocolate and cocoanut. Alright, a graham cracker. They're in the kitchen, in the closet. Maybe later.

Most accidents, I'm convinced, are God's way of getting rid of stupid people. Or if you believe in Darwinism, you wonder why there are any stupid people left in the world. Well, I guess they can reproduce before they remove themselves from the gene pool.

He said that it always struck him with surprise that while men in buying an earthen or glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at her.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

I was going to go to Auburn but I just didn't like Auburn. They left a bad taste in my mouth.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

I don't have a 'favorite' movie.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.