Quotes About Selection

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date - that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Music chooses her musicians.

I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing every day.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction I want from the crowd.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.