Quotes About Selection

he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.

You'll pick the wrong one, knowing you...He did pick the wrong one.

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. 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 the greatness in men.

More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

You cannot choose any of the current options you're considering. What else could you

decision paralysis. More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan

One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you've only identified one good candidate for a job, for instance, you'll have the strong urge to talk yourself into hiring her, which is a recipe for the confirmation bias.

One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you've only identified one good candidate for a job, for instance, you'll have the strong urge to talk yourself into hiring her, which is a recipe for the confirmation bias. You'll start to make excuses for the flaws you see: She asked us not to call her old boss for a reference, but that's probably okay, because the boss sounded like a real jerk …

in recalling an experience, we ignore most of what happened and focus instead on a few particular moments.

The Paradox of Choice

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

In a world of infinite choice, not context content is king.

Selection at the level of groups of creatures with common traits requires an understanding of the interactions that occur within their ecosystem, and situations such as these cannot be interpreted solely in terms of individual selection or genetic cost-benefit analysis

Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.

Good choice. You have selected the SUV. Press one for a black SUV. Press two for powder blue. Press three for bright orange with the 'caution: bank robber on board' bumper sticker

Maybe some Spam or SpaghettiOs?

You're not exactly the father I'd choose for my children. (Coco Chanel)

la gran cantidad de elecciones que debemos hacer, junto con su complejidad, ha minado nuestra habilidad para escoger bien;

with options for 17- and 33-round mags

abundance of other criteria. One thing I knew when I began this project: I was not the person to assemble this list. So I followed a recipe that served me well in my first six Fifty Places books—to see the advice of some professionals. To write Fifty Places

If you going to steal a book thought, you should at least take the nicest one, otherwise what's the point?

At the same time that Lahn's results were published, another team of scientists based at the University of California, San Diego, announced the discovery of a positively selected gene called SIGLEC11 that is expressed in brain cells called microglia. Although they can't yet explain the effects of the gene, it is interesting because it is one of the very few found only in humans and not in our ape cousins. This could make it a candidate for explaining some of the differences between us and them.

There is evidence from ancient DNA that lighter skin, hair, and eye pigmentation was strongly selected for in Europe in just the last five thousand years.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.