Quotes About Selection

There are no fixed notions on what I should pick up or follow, it has to first appeal to me.

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

I get to pick so many things as an actor. Also, I'm a good observer of people and their mannerisms.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them HAS to be right.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.

There is a danger the wheat might burn with the chaff.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Orson Scott Card

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selection between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo. Great. Okay. How about this one. A farmer finds two boll weevils in his cotton patch. You told me. I never. He chose the lesser of two weevils.

Humans so liked to choose the wrong men as their leaders.

And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?

Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself.

Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

Portfolio of Diana Walker Photos For almost thirty years, photographer Diana Walker has had special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio.

I could answer by telling you that such selective sweeps create a valley of genetic diversity around the site under selection, that they leave a deficit of extreme allele frequencies (low or high) at linked sites and an increase in linkage disequilibrium in flanking regions—but that doesn't tell you much unless you're a geneticist.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!