Quotes About Selection

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn't even imagine.

You are not born a winner; you are not born a loser. You are born a chooser.

You don't get to choose when or who you meet, but you do get to choose who you hold on to.

The problem with the Gene pool is there arn't any lifeguards.

Through the journey of life you will have choices, and you would have to choose the best.

Life is all about Making Choices, we get to choose one among the many, and the one we choose defines our Future and Destiny.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So, keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

De sorte que é um erro falar em má escolha de amor, pois, desde que há escolha, só pode ser má.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chooses the person one loves after endless deliberation and on the strength of diverse qualities and advantages.

the fine binding of his volume of Balzac I asked him which was his favourite novel in the Comédie Humaine, he replied, his thoughts irresistibly attracted to the same topic: "Either one thing or the other, a tiny miniature like the Curé de Tours and the Femme abandonnée, or one of the great frescoes like the series of Illusions perdues. What! You've never read Illusions perdues?

The Four Keys of Great Managers: 1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination." 2. "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps." 3. "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses." 4. "When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

When people don't take the time to become well educated, they are most likely making their decision based solely on price, which generally means they're not the best fit.

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Siempre hay alguien que elige, y otro que tiene que aceptar la elección.

For the child with such exercises makes, to a certain extent, a selection of his own tendencies, which were at first confused in the unconscious disorder of his movements. It is remarkable how clearly individual differences show themselves, if we proceed in this way; the child, conscious and free, reveals himself.

C — Choose. What's my choice?

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.