Quotes About Selection

There she is, as eligible a candidate as you're likely to find this late in the game. The sexual equivalent of fast food.

He had made his decision regarding Molly with great care and consideration.

But if you seek counsel - from a priest, for example - you have selected that priest; and at bottom you already knew, more or less, what he would advise. In other words, to choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice. (From: Existentialism is a Humanism)

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Please just let us choose and get it over with.

You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Few great men could pass personnel.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.