Quotes About Selection

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome'.

You can choose choices but not outcomes. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

excellent outcomes were the result of 'the wise choice of many alternatives'.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

sex is merely a genetic joint venture. the process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Do we know how to make choices? Are we aware of our choices when we are making them? Are we conscious that when we say yes to one thing we automatically say no to everything else? Did we ever really learn to make choices?

It is the unconscious which chooses what aspect of us will be admitted to official existence.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

o capitalismo atual, que se desenvolveu a ponto de dominar a vida econômica, educa e seleciona os sujeitos econômicos de que precisa por um processo de sobrevivência econômica dos mais bem adaptados.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Where'd you find her? He picked me out of a catalog.

Faced with too many choices, my mother often chose none.

Let's choose all over nothing

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

Three things to remember about shopping are location, location, location.

Of the 1,019 Jews who arrived from Westerbork on September 5, 258 men and 212 women survived the selection process. The remaining 549, among them all the children, were killed immediately after their arrival in the gas chambers of Birkenau and their bodies burned in the neighboring crematoria. All eight residents of 263 Prinsengracht survived the first round. Anne, at fifteen years and three months, was among the youngest.

It was her choice. In a world where so many choices weren't hers, it was a wonderful thing.