Quotes About Selection

Mazirian made a selection from his books and with great effort forced five spells upon his brain: Phandaal's Gyrator, Felojun's Second Hypnotic Spell, The Excellent Prismatic Spray, The Charm of Untiring Nourishment, and the Spell of the Omnipotent Sphere. This accomplished, Mazirian drank wine and retired to his couch.

When it came time to retire to his chamber for the night, the khan had his pick of beautiful young women, all of whom had been tested to make sure that they did not snore, have bad breath, or discharge any unpleasant body odors.

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

When there are many worlds you can choose the one you walk into each day.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest [experiments] win, and the weakest die.

The challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but opportunity selection.

It is simply a manifestation of the "first who" principle: It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place.

In a good-to-great transformation, people are not your most important asset. The right people are.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

England have never wanted me at underage level; it's always been Ireland.

People underestimate the degree to which only having three or four channels changes your outlook on television; it makes everything much more memorable because there are so few other options.

Then there is Abhimanyu Ray, Honey Trehan, Nandini Srikanth, Shanoo Sharma, we have so many great casting directors who have nothing to do with acting. You just need to have a great eye to understand the character.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better suited to their environments.

I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know which ones those are. And you've just got to go for the opportunities of films you think might be memorable.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

Love everyone but chose your friends with caution.

It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Chose your love, love your choice.

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.