Quotes About Selection

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

You don't need everybody, just the right somebody!

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

Choosing the wrong way makes us feel different and ensured you to take right decision

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse.

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

Most people should miss out on most things most of the time.

The owner actually tried the oil and chooses to carry it based on its taste. It's not about packaging, marketing, or price. It's about quality. He tried it and knew his store had to carry it. That's the approach you should take too.

hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that's not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process. There's a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.

Resumés are ridiculous

Contrata buenos escritores Si tienes que decidirte entre varios candidatos para un puesto, contrata al que escriba mejor.

So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

y sin embargo nos va la vida y se nos va la vida en escoger y rechazar y seleccionar, en trazar una línea que separe esas cosas que son idénticas y haga de nuestra historia una historia única que recordemos y pueda contarse.

Quizá no contaba con que hay personas que, si lo divisan a uno y lo eligen, no abandonan ni se retiran del todo, sino que son como el buitre: se alejan y trazan círculos y sobrevuelan y esperan y prueban nueva fortuna.

Lo que se da es idéntico a lo que no se da, lo que descartamos o dejamos pasar idéntico a lo que tomamos y asimos, lo que experimentamos idéntico a lo que no probamos, y sin embargo nos va la vida y se nos va la vida en escoger y rechazar y seleccionar, en trazar una línea que separe esas cosas que son idénticas y haga de nuestra historia una histórica única que recordemos y pueda contarse.

I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

Even when we have access to the same data, we tend to notice different things. We are all moving along the same sidewalk, but the historian may notice the brickwork, the jogger the impact on her knees, and the fellow in the wheelchair the areas that are less accessible. We're engulfed by information—far too much to take in—and so we select small samples to pay attention to and ignore the rest.

the desire to sacrifice oneself for love is so otherworldly that it must have come from another world. It is so alien to the tooth and claw of natural selection that it must be the result of a supernatural selection.

I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here