Quotes About Selection

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.

Where I get involved is that I have to sign off the money, yet when you have target one, two or three from your process I feel fine going after the No 1 target and, if it's not to be him, then number two or three.

Economically Targeted Investing, or ETI, refers to the practice of selecting investments, in part, for their collateral benefits in addition to the investment return for the retirement plan.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Selecting about 100 judges of the higher judiciary every year in a rational and fair manner is an onerous task requiring a full-time and not an ex-officio body. An ex-officio body of sitting judges and ministers cannot devote the kind of time required for this job.

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

I love all different kinds of music, but my favorites on my iPod are Bruno Mars, Rascal Flats, Taylor Swift just to name a few.

There are certain things that I might not watch, and, in fact, some things that I've done I don't watch because it's not my cup of tea, I guess.

As long as Didier Deschamps is coach, I have no chance of getting back into the France team.

The national team is part of my life. I have an incredible history, of many conquests and also many defeats. But to play for Brazil, I have to have a club and play well. I'm not going to be picked on my past or because of my sponsor, as many have said.

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.