Quotes About Selection

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

Youthquake' wasn't an entirely predictable choice for Oxford's Word of 2017. It hasn't been on the lips of an entire nation, nor is it new. But it amply fulfilled the criteria Oxford requires for selection.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

It's very difficult to pick a 17-year-old who's had 10 minutes of first-team football. You're talking about replacing senior players with some 17-year-olds who haven't played Premier League football.

The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

There's always going to be pressure on your place. It's 11 cricketers. There's always going to be other cricketers outside the team doing well.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.

I am always available for selection for Davis Cup. If TA select me, then great. If TA does not select me, then there's not too much I can do.

We will decide who comes to our country.

When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.