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Quotes About Selection

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.
~ Karen Traviss
You don't kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
~ Karin Slaughter
Nice to have an option," Sara mumbled. Cathy had practically poked her girls with a stick. "What
~ Karin Slaughter
Keep the best, forget the rest.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
~ Arthur Helps
The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
~ Humphrey Bogart
I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.
~ George H. Morris
After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
~ Candace Bushnell
There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.
~ Phyllis Bentley
A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
~ Evan Esar
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
~ Evan Esar
I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.
~ Bjork
Man must choose his world
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Men go after me, and I choose among them.
~ Bess Myerson
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
~ Blaise Pascal
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
~ Boris Sidis
A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.
~ Grace Zaring Stone
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
~ Austin O'Malley
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
~ Tyler James Williams