Quotes About Selection

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

I'm all for diversity - but diversity for deserving people.

Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

I can't stand going to those sandwich bars where you've got to choose your own stuff, because I don't know what goes together. It does my head in. I'd rather them tell me. I'm not the expert. I haven't spent years learning these different combinations.

You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don't know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, 'Oh.' It's a little bit like saying, 'How would he be with him? How does that feel?'

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.

I never choose films because of its starcast - the director and the story are the most important factors for me.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

Assigning best people to the project ("If they're easy to give up, they're the wrong people.")

The talent is in the choices.

Il talento sta nelle scelte

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we're fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain.

Interviews are useful for other things besides screening candidates. For