Quotes About Selection

Signals such as high grades—or a peacock's tail or big bank building—don't indicate interest; they are marks of desirability. That is, the gaudy tail doesn't signal how much the peacock is interested in a particular peahen; it signals how much the hens should be attracted to that particular cock.

Oye, Drina, ¿truco o trato? - Ever Bloom

La mirada es una elección. El que mira decide fijarse en algo en concreto y, por consiguiente, a la fuerza elige excluir su atención del resto de su campo visual. Esa es la razón por la cual la mirada, que constituye la esencia de la vida, es, en primera instancia, un rechazo.

C'est vous, désormais, qui sélectionnerez les prisonniers. C'est vous qui choisirez ceux qui restent et ceux qui partent. L'usage du mot « mort » était soigneusement évité.

Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.

The fundamental issue is: In the world of the Internet, is there a place for a packager of services? Does the customer want to go surf the Net and go to every one of 50,000 Web sites? Or will people pay a reasonable amount for somebody to go out and preselect and package what they want? My guess is they will both coexist.

Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Companies need to weed out drivers who dont drive well or have got poor ratings from the customers.

We profile drivers based on their riding behavior, driving behavior to make sure we weed out the bad-performing drivers, which are considered unsafe in terms of their driving profiles.

I don't think there is an era of autocuties. I think if there is such a thing as an autocutie they weed themselves out because they can't hack it.

Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

While I don't know who will eventually be selected, I think Kangana Ranaut can portray me perfectly on screen, I like her as an actress.

I turned down an offer to represent Portugal.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.