Quotes About Selection

He was handpicked to display the works of God.

Overlooked by everyone, but handpicked by God.

Choices and consequences come in package deals. When we make a choice, we ignite the consequences that can come along with it.

So for James, too, will derives not from the freedom to initiate thoughts, but to focus on and select some while stifling, blocking-or vetoing-others. For Buddhist mindfulness practice, it is the moment of restraint that allows mindful awareness to take hold and deepen. The essence of directed mental force is first to stop the grinding machine-like automaticity of the urge to act. Only then can the wisdom of the prefrontal cortex be actively engaged.

We also know that evolution crafted all life on the planet with natural selection and that we can capture the way it works with mathematics, distilling its essence into the form of equations.

Before this insight, one might have been tempted to think of evolution as a completely random walk across a fitness landscape, in other words a series of steps in multidimensional sequence space where no region is more likely to be explored than any other region. But it turns out that, due to the power of selection and quasispecies, there are biases in evolution's walk through the genetic possibilities of life.

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

As commonly practised, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs' 'There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution' 'Human knowledge is one thing, human well-being is another.There is no predetermined harmony between the two' 'In the struggle for life, the taste for truth is a luxury-or else a disability

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

James Lindsey, age fifty-three, married; occupation—none; address—a rural road out from the remote settlement of Box Hill, almost to Tyler County. His questionnaire said he was a Baptist. He had volunteered nothing during the morning session, and no one seemed to know anything about him. Neither John Wilbanks nor Miles Truitt wanted to waste a challenge, so James Lindsey became the first juror selected for the trial.

I doubt it. I'll give any book a hundred pages, and if by then the writer can't hold my attention I'll put it away. There are too many good books I want to read to waste time with a bad one." ?

Up to now, Mary's own impresa, chosen while she was in France

And Juan Diego had selected this particular book because it was in English; he'd wanted more practice reading English, though his less-than-rapt audience (Lupe and Rivera and the disagreeable dog Dirty White) might have understood him better en español.

Natural selection is intolerant of idle verbosity.

pace of genetic selection, recombination

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Be careful when you have so many options at your disposal because that's when you are most likely to make the wrong choice.

Sorry hun, but unlike you, I'm not a doorknob where everyone gets a turn. I'm more of a casino where only the lucky ones hit the jackpot.

We people are different from each other not because of our religion or race but by our choices and the decisions we make.

The world judges me by the decisions I make, never does it see the options I had to choose from!

Sometimes when you end up in a relationship with someone, it's not because they were your first choice, it's because they were your best choice.