Quotes About Selection

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Henry Ford inviting job candidates to dinner and watching them eat. He never hired the man who salted his food before tasting it.

the single most important task in management is to pick good deputies,

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

With "unlimited selection," "unfiltered customer reviews," and "ultimate personalization," the three unmatchable and innate advantages of the Internet, Bezos was confident that no physical bookstores, no matter how big they were then, could be serious competitors in the long run.

If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow.'13

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.

Strong selection for extreme mental capacities may have given us all minds like the legs of racehorses, fast but vulnerable to catastrophic failures. This model fits well with the idea that schizophrenia is intimately related to language and cognitive ability.93 It also fits well with the observation that schizophrenia may be intimately related to the human capacity for "theory of mind," our ability to intuit other people's motives and cognitive abilities in general.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

There is no perfect candidate.

Finding the one right candidate in a group is hard, and companies don't have much time to figure out exactly which questions can help them tell similar-seeming candidates apart.

I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

I made it pretty clear that if I'm captain, the best team has to play.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

I need to be careful about the films I choose to do.

I choose my roles carefully.

Cast is everything.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

I think for my casting of 'Pati Patni Aur Woh' the makers saw my ad film which I did for a brand and they decided to cast me in the film.

Casting is very, very important.

Sometimes it's all about the casting.