Quotes About Selection

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

Everything has to be reconsidered, shaped anew. Autobiographical fiction, even if it is inspired by reality, by memory, requires a rigorous selection, a merciless cutting. One writes with the pen, but in the end, to create the right form, one has to use, like Matisse, a good pair of scissors.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one.

Do not read what you don't like

There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

if someone "chose" you, what does that tell you? Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be "chosen"? Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world? The one who "chose" you? And the other who didn't?

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

There's nothing worse than going on a huge food shopping trip, then being overwhelmed of the endless possibilities you can make.

People always talk about being overwhelmed in a supermarket. I've never felt that feeling. I like lots of choices.

Hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third.

Love is like fishing. There are millions of them in the sea and it's easy to catch a fish. But it's hard to catch one that is truly a keeper.

Commitment doesn't mean sticking to a person when you don't have any option, it means keeping a relation with someone even though you have lots of options.

Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.

While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.

Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" (John 6:70)

Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you" (John 15:16), but

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.