Quotes About Selection

There were four cars to choose from, identical except in color. Charles raised an eyebrow at Anna and she trotted around them, pondering. "Gray, white, and silver would all blend in," she told him. "By all means let's take the metallic orange," he agreed somberly.

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Most people would like to think that they are independent thinkers and that they value freedom, but they actually want freedom from choice instead of freedom of choice.

This is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth.

There's always choices, pup, but from what I hear, ye made the right one.

A few of you are here by choice. Or at least by Switzerland.

My great quandary was what coat to wear and which books to bring.

Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise. The facts are there, to be sure, but they are infinite in number and speak, if at all, in conflicting, often unintelligible, voices. It is the task of the historian to reach back into this incoherent babel of facts, choose the ones that are important, and figure out what it is they say.

choosing from among fifteen flavors of ice cream is harder than choosing from three. Indeed, there is a whole literature on the "paradox of choice" that focuses on the stress associated with difficult decisions.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?

Distinction bias is the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

Few great men could pass personnel.

Many are called, few are chosen.

God creates the world and chooses a special people.

There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came to you. Sometimes you can know that such an image has been selected to stay with you forever out of the hundreds you every day encounter.

Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that's what writers do, they make contexts.

J'ai l'extase et j'ai la terreur d'être choisi.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

produce new species. One set of parents can produce offspring

Any who say they are not willing to shoot an inmate are not hired.

Yeah, right, so much choice there. Her mood wasn't helped by the fact she hadn't got laid this visit. Again: choices.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?