Quotes About Selection

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

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

People want variety and something that is affordable.

I have a lot of variety on my iPod. Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, artists like that, but I also listen to hip-hop as well.

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

When you have variety, you have freedom.

I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

Not many stores can boast the unmatched variety that Boots has.

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

I think what's universal is the idea of auditioning. It's something that you do in every kind of job market. You audition every time you go on a date, you audition at a job interview, and it's always about trying to put the best version of yourself forward and seeing what sticks and what doesn't.

selecting and collecting the right texts is just as important for writing instruction.